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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

Moliere

There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Man Necessary
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE

Eat Live Oneself
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
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
MOLIERE

Learning People Quality
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
MOLIERE

Alive Food Goodness Myself
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
MOLIERE

Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
MOLIERE

Better Greatness Place World
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
MOLIERE

Culture Hope
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
MOLIERE

Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
MOLIERE

Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
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
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
MOLIERE

Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
MOLIERE

Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
MOLIERE

Man Myself
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

Death Ourselves

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

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