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You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.

Moliere

Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

Death Ourselves
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
MOLIERE

Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
MOLIERE

Cultivation Interest People
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
MOLIERE

Esteem Meaning Preference
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
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Heaven Known Talk
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Hook Intelligence
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
MOLIERE

Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
MOLIERE

Love Season Thinking
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
MOLIERE

Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
MOLIERE

Goodness Oneself Thinking
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
MOLIERE

Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
MOLIERE

Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
MOLIERE

Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
MOLIERE

Reason Sacred Thinking
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste

You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.

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