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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.

Moliere

Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
MOLIERE

Government Grammar King
The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

Death Jealous Willing
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
MOLIERE

Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
MOLIERE

Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
MOLIERE

Drugs Equality Life Live Philosophy Worth
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
MOLIERE

Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
MOLIERE

Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
MOLIERE

Oneself Talk Word
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
MOLIERE

Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
MOLIERE

Learning People Quality
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
MOLIERE

Draw Enough Goodness
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound

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