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No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

Moliere

And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
MOLIERE

Himself Spiritual
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Hook Intelligence
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
MOLIERE

Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
MOLIERE

Death Infidelity Malicious Man
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
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
MOLIERE

Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
Assassination’s the fastest way.
MOLIERE

Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
MOLIERE

Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
MOLIERE

Attack Neighbor Room
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
MOLIERE

Esteem Hold Preference
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
MOLIERE

Blind Clear Liberty Sight
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
MOLIERE

Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

Death Ourselves
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
The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

Death Jealous Willing
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
MOLIERE

Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom

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