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

Moliere

And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
MOLIERE

Charity Known Money Yourself
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
MOLIERE

Conquer Gold Love War
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
MOLIERE

Myself Poet Trouble Writing
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
MOLIERE

Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
MOLIERE

Mindset Need Play Work
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
MOLIERE

Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
MOLIERE

Creation Private Sin Wicket
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
MOLIERE

Chance Myself Show Writing
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
MOLIERE

Medicine Money Trade Yourself
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE

Eat Live Oneself
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
MOLIERE

Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
MOLIERE

Prose Verse
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!
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Bad Goodness
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
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
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
MOLIERE

Eat Enough Food
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
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.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money

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