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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

Moliere

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
MOLIERE

Better Greatness Place World
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
MOLIERE

Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife

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