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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

People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
MOLIERE

Learning People Quality
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
MOLIERE

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

Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
MOLIERE

Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
MOLIERE

Cure Husband Woman
Long is the road from conception to completion.
MOLIERE

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

Learning Nonsense
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
MOLIERE

Beyond Compare Try World
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
MOLIERE

Instruction Smile Youth
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
MOLIERE

Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
MOLIERE

Honest Live Man Passion Worth
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
MOLIERE

Esteem Hold Preference
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
MOLIERE

Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
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

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

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