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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

Moliere

The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

Deep Jealous People
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
MOLIERE

Courage Pity Pretend
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
MOLIERE

Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
MOLIERE

Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
MOLIERE

Heart Love Myself World
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
MOLIERE

Absence Partner Relationship
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
MOLIERE

Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
MOLIERE

Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
MOLIERE

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

Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
We die only once, and for such a long time.
MOLIERE

Death Time
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
MOLIERE

Body Cover Soul Wound
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
MOLIERE

Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
MOLIERE

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

Better Greatness Place World
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
MOLIERE

Man Precise Smart

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

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