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

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

Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
MOLIERE

Preference Vice Virtue
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
MOLIERE

Ancestor People Present
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
MOLIERE

Cheating Hold Infidelity
The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

Deep Jealous People
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
MOLIERE

Eat Enough Food
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
MOLIERE

Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
How easy love makes fools of us.
MOLIERE

Easy Fools Love Ourselves
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
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
MOLIERE

Draw Enough Goodness
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
MOLIERE

Honest Live Man Passion Worth
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
MOLIERE

Action Difference People Promise
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
MOLIERE

Born One Liner Virtue
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
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

Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World

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