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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.

Moliere

Without dance, a man can do nothing.
MOLIERE

Dance Man One Liner
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
MOLIERE

Esteem Hold Preference
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Hook Intelligence
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
MOLIERE

Fool Ignorance Learning
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
MOLIERE

Cultivation Interest People
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
MOLIERE

Direct Error Haste Reason
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
MOLIERE

Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
MOLIERE

Draw Enough Goodness
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
MOLIERE

Value Worth Yourself
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
MOLIERE

Capacity Limitation Occasion
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
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
MOLIERE

Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
MOLIERE

Learning People Quality
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
MOLIERE

Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
MOLIERE

Courage Pity Pretend
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
MOLIERE

Age People Praise

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