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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.

Moliere

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
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
MOLIERE

Laughter People Respect Strange
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
MOLIERE

Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
MOLIERE

Criticism Love Proof True
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
MOLIERE

Charm Expression Fact Lying
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
MOLIERE

Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
MOLIERE

Ancestor People Present
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
MOLIERE

Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
MOLIERE

Nobility Virtue
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
MOLIERE

Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
MOLIERE

Talk Understand Well Yourself
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
MOLIERE

Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
MOLIERE

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

Offend Silence Sin World
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Secret Sin
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
MOLIERE

Pocket Praise Sort Yourself

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