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

Moliere

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
MOLIERE

Courage Pity Pretend
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
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
MOLIERE

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

Learning People Quality
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
MOLIERE

Direction Himself Right
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
MOLIERE

Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
MOLIERE

Reason Sacred Thinking
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
MOLIERE

Haste Man Marriage Regret
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
MOLIERE

End Soon
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
MOLIERE

Capacity Limitation Occasion
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
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Secret Sin
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
MOLIERE

Fool Son Yourself
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
MOLIERE

Book Marvelous
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True

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