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

Moliere

It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
MOLIERE

Love Season Thinking
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
MOLIERE

Friendship Man Myself Truth
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
MOLIERE

Bad Goodness
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
MOLIERE

Nobility Virtue
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
MOLIERE

Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
MOLIERE

Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
MOLIERE

Better Death Marriage
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
MOLIERE

Gratitude Heaven True Way
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
MOLIERE

Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
To live without loving is not really to live.
MOLIERE

Live Love Wasted
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
MOLIERE

Honor Share
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
MOLIERE

Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
MOLIERE

Eat Enough Food
Books and marriage go ill together.
MOLIERE

Book Marriage Sick
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
MOLIERE

Intimacy Live
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
MOLIERE

Preference Vice Virtue

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