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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

Moliere

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

Blind Clear Liberty Sight
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
MOLIERE

Medicine Money Trade Yourself
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
MOLIERE

Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
MOLIERE

Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
MOLIERE

Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
MOLIERE

Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
MOLIERE

Reason Sacred Thinking
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
MOLIERE

Greatness Love Master Teaching
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
MOLIERE

Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Man Necessary
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
MOLIERE

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

Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
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

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