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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

Ah, there are no children nowadays.
MOLIERE

Children Time
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
MOLIERE

Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
MOLIERE

Death Infidelity Malicious Man
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
MOLIERE

Chance Myself Show Writing
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
MOLIERE

Death Man Medicine Sick
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
MOLIERE

Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
MOLIERE

Human Myself
We die only once, and for such a long time.
MOLIERE

Death Time
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
MOLIERE

Death People Remedy Sick
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
MOLIERE

Better Death Marriage
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
MOLIERE

Fool Ignorance Learning
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
MOLIERE

Boredom Happiness Hard Time
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
MOLIERE

Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
MOLIERE

Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
MOLIERE

Intimacy Live
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
MOLIERE

Attack Neighbor Room

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.

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