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

Moliere

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
MOLIERE

Goodness Oneself Thinking
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
MOLIERE

Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Heaven Known Talk
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
MOLIERE

Easy Humour Moral
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
MOLIERE

Death People Remedy Sick
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
MOLIERE

Book Marvelous
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
MOLIERE

Home Lover Stand
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
MOLIERE

Easy Fools Love Oneself
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
MOLIERE

Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
MOLIERE

Charm Expression Fact Lying
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
MOLIERE

Oneself Talk Word
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Feed Goodness Language

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