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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

Moliere

You are a fool in four letters, my son.
MOLIERE

Fool Son Yourself
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
MOLIERE

Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
MOLIERE

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

Himself Spiritual
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
MOLIERE

Age People Praise
I recover my property wherever I find it.
MOLIERE

Finding Myself Property Recover
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
MOLIERE

Beard Discrimination Power Sex
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
MOLIERE

Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
MOLIERE

Beyond Compare Try World
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
MOLIERE

Death Infidelity Malicious Man
It is a long road from conception to completion.
MOLIERE

Complete Concept Road
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
MOLIERE

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

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

Esteem Hold Preference

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

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