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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

It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
MOLIERE

Love Season Thinking
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
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
MOLIERE

Man Myself
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
MOLIERE

Eat Enough Food
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
MOLIERE

Death Knowledge Life Shadow
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
MOLIERE

Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
MOLIERE

Affair Strange World
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
MOLIERE

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

Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
MOLIERE

Beyond Compare Try World
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
MOLIERE

Chance Myself Show Writing
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
MOLIERE

Cultivation Interest People
Music and dance are all you need.
MOLIERE

Dance Music Need
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
MOLIERE

Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
MOLIERE

Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
MOLIERE

Honest Live Man Passion Worth

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.

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