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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

Things are only worth what you make them worth.
MOLIERE

Value Worth Yourself
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
MOLIERE

Easy Humour Moral
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
MOLIERE

Laughter People Respect Strange
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
MOLIERE

Blush Innocence One Liner
We die only once, and for such a long time.
MOLIERE

Death Time
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
MOLIERE

Man Precise Smart
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
MOLIERE

Criticism Love Proof True
The smallest errors are always the best.
MOLIERE

Best Errors Small
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
MOLIERE

Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
MOLIERE

Age Madam Time
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
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
MOLIERE

Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

Death Jealous Willing
Too great haste leads us to error.
MOLIERE

Error Greatness Haste
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
MOLIERE

Double Grief Increase Yourself
A woman always has her revenge ready.
MOLIERE

Herself Revenge Woman

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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