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

Moliere

When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
MOLIERE

Purpose Serve Understand
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
MOLIERE

Home Lover Stand
Music and dance are all you need.
MOLIERE

Dance Music Need
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
MOLIERE

Heart Integrity Virtue
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
MOLIERE

Fruit Growth Slow Tree
Assassination’s the fastest way.
MOLIERE

Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
MOLIERE

Learning Nonsense
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
MOLIERE

Cook Food Himself World
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
MOLIERE

Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
MOLIERE

Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
MOLIERE

Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
MOLIERE

Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
MOLIERE

Right True Zeal
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
MOLIERE

Courage Pity Pretend
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
MOLIERE

Death Infidelity Malicious Man
Too great haste leads us to error.
MOLIERE

Error Greatness Haste

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