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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Moliere

We are easily duped by those we love.
MOLIERE

Easy Heart Love
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
MOLIERE

Age Madam Time
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
MOLIERE

Goodness Oneself Thinking
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
MOLIERE

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

Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
MOLIERE

Cure Husband Woman
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
MOLIERE

Intimacy Live
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
MOLIERE

Better Greatness Place World
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
MOLIERE

Eat Enough Food
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
MOLIERE

Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
MOLIERE

Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
MOLIERE

Born Virtue
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
MOLIERE

Mindset Need Play Work
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
MOLIERE

Affair Strange World
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
MOLIERE

Ancestor People Present
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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