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

Moliere

We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
MOLIERE

Enemy Heart Imposter Live
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
MOLIERE

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

Goodness Oneself Thinking
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
MOLIERE

End Soon
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
MOLIERE

Easy Fools Love Oneself
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
MOLIERE

Beard Discrimination Power Sex
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
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
MOLIERE

Better Greatness Place World
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
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

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

Learning Nonsense
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
MOLIERE

Eat Enough Food
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
MOLIERE

Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
The smallest errors are always the best.
MOLIERE

Best Errors Small
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
MOLIERE

Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
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

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