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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.

Moliere

In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
MOLIERE

Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
MOLIERE

Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
MOLIERE

Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
MOLIERE

Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
MOLIERE

Creation Private Sin Wicket
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
MOLIERE

Greatness Love Master Teaching
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
MOLIERE

Laughter People Respect Strange
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
MOLIERE

Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
MOLIERE

Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
MOLIERE

Body Cover Soul Wound
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE

Eat Live Oneself
Books and marriage go ill together.
MOLIERE

Book Marriage Sick
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
MOLIERE

Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King

The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.

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