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As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

Moliere

Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
MOLIERE

Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
MOLIERE

Purpose Serve Understand
Too great haste leads us to error.
MOLIERE

Error Greatness Haste
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
MOLIERE

Cultivation Interest People
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
MOLIERE

Affair Charm Gold Misery
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
MOLIERE

Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
MOLIERE

Drive Home Reason
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
MOLIERE

Blush Innocence One Liner
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
MOLIERE

Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
There is no protection against slander.
MOLIERE

Protection
Long is the road from conception to completion.
MOLIERE

Complete Road
We die only once, and for such a long time.
MOLIERE

Death Time
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
MOLIERE

Criticism Love Proof True
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
MOLIERE

Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
MOLIERE

Esteem Hold Preference
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
MOLIERE

Fashion Passion People See Strange

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