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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

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 believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
MOLIERE

Believe Mathematics
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
MOLIERE

People Praise Season Swallow
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
MOLIERE

Human Live Love Powerful
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE

Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
MOLIERE

Government Grammar King
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
MOLIERE

Action Difference People Promise
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
MOLIERE

Preference Vice Virtue
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
MOLIERE

Reason Sacred Thinking
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
MOLIERE

Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
MOLIERE

Children Time
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
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.
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Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
MOLIERE

Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

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