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

Moliere

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
MOLIERE

Goodness Oneself Thinking
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
MOLIERE

Blind Clear Liberty Sight
I will maintain it before the whole world.
MOLIERE

Maintain Myself World
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
MOLIERE

Fool Ignorance Learning
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
MOLIERE

Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
MOLIERE

Honest Live Man Passion Worth
The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

Death Jealous Willing
The smallest errors are always the best.
MOLIERE

Best Error Small
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
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
MOLIERE

Chance Myself Show Writing
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
MOLIERE

Eat Enough Food
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
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
MOLIERE

Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
MOLIERE

Criticism Love Proof True
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
MOLIERE

Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
MOLIERE

Friendship Man Myself Truth
Music and dance are all you need.
MOLIERE

Dance Music Need
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
MOLIERE

Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
MOLIERE

Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
MOLIERE

Easy Fools Love Oneself
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
MOLIERE

Goodness Modeling People Side
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
MOLIERE

Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
MOLIERE

Children Pain Pleasure

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