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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.

Moliere

If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
MOLIERE

Talk Understand Well Yourself
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
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
MOLIERE

Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
MOLIERE

Karma Secret
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
MOLIERE

People Praise Season Swallow
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
MOLIERE

Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
MOLIERE

Culture Hope
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
MOLIERE

Esteem Hold Preference
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

Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
MOLIERE

Charity Known Money Yourself
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
MOLIERE

Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
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
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
MOLIERE

Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
But it is not reason that governs love.
MOLIERE

Government Love Reason
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
MOLIERE

Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison

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