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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.

Moliere

All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
MOLIERE

Absence Minimalism
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
MOLIERE

Goodness Modeling People Side
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
MOLIERE

Himself Spiritual
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
MOLIERE

Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
MOLIERE

Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
MOLIERE

Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
MOLIERE

Blind Clear Liberty Sight
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Hook Intelligence
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
MOLIERE

Preference Vice Virtue
There is no protection against slander.
MOLIERE

Protection
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
MOLIERE

Book Marvelous
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
MOLIERE

Himself Kill Money
To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
MOLIERE

Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
MOLIERE

Right True Zeal
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
MOLIERE

Amuse Comedy Correct Men
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
MOLIERE

Easy Humour Moral

I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.

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