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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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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
MOLIERE

Fine Myself Understand Word
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
MOLIERE

Death People Remedy Sick
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
MOLIERE

Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
MOLIERE

God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
Too great haste leads us to error.
MOLIERE

Error Greatness Haste
I will maintain it before the whole world.
MOLIERE

Maintain Myself World
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
MOLIERE

Fruit Growth Slow Tree
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
MOLIERE

Children Time
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
MOLIERE

Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
There is no protection against slander.
MOLIERE

Protection
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
MOLIERE

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

Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
MOLIERE

Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
MOLIERE

Boredom Happiness Hard Time
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
MOLIERE

Creation Private Sin Wicket
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

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