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

Moliere

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

Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
MOLIERE

Nobility Virtue
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
MOLIERE

Fool Son Yourself
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
MOLIERE

Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
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
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
MOLIERE

Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
MOLIERE

Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
MOLIERE

Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
MOLIERE

Grammar Hands Law Obedience
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
MOLIERE

Bad Goodness
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
MOLIERE

Cure Husband Woman
Too great haste leads us to error.
MOLIERE

Error Greatness Haste
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.
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Absence Minimalism
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
MOLIERE

Drive Home Reason
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
MOLIERE

Conquer Gold Love War
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
MOLIERE

Reason Sacred Thinking
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
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
The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

Death Jealous Willing
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
MOLIERE

Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Better Greatness Place World
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand

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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