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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
MOLIERE

Forever Friendship Myself
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
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
MOLIERE

Culture Hope
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE

Finding Heaven Pleasure True
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
MOLIERE

Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
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
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
MOLIERE

Improvement Mistake Try World
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
MOLIERE

Prose Verse
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
MOLIERE

Death Man Medicine Sick
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
MOLIERE

Offend Silence Sin World
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
MOLIERE

Friendship Love Purity
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
MOLIERE

Fool Son Yourself
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
MOLIERE

Born One Liner Virtue
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
MOLIERE

Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
MOLIERE

Man Myself

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