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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.

Moliere

Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
MOLIERE

Grammar Hands Law Obedience
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
MOLIERE

Improvement Mistake Try World
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
MOLIERE

Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
MOLIERE

Peace Salvation Yourself
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
MOLIERE

Easy Fools Love Oneself
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
MOLIERE

Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
MOLIERE

Herself Laughter Yourself
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
MOLIERE

Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Blush Innocence One Liner
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
MOLIERE

Offend Silence Sin World
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
MOLIERE

Absence Minimalism
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
It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Complete Concept Road
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
MOLIERE

Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
MOLIERE

Attack Neighbor Room

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