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I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.

Moliere

Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
MOLIERE

Talk Understand Well Yourself
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
MOLIERE

Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
MOLIERE

Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife

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