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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?

Moliere

We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
MOLIERE

Enemy Heart Imposter Live
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
MOLIERE

Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
MOLIERE

Intimacy Live
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

Death Ourselves
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
MOLIERE

Born One Liner Virtue
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
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
MOLIERE

Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Hook Intelligence
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
MOLIERE

Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
MOLIERE

Accomplishment Projection Road
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
MOLIERE

Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
MOLIERE

Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
Assassination’s the fastest way.
MOLIERE

Assassination Death Fast Murder Way

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