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Moliere

Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
MOLIERE

Born Virtue
We die only once, and for such a long time.
MOLIERE

Death Time
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
MOLIERE

Cultivation Interest People
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
MOLIERE

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

Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
MOLIERE

Greatness Rule Simplicity
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
MOLIERE

Knowledge Known
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Man Necessary
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
MOLIERE

Boredom Happiness Hard Time
How easy love makes fools of us.
MOLIERE

Easy Fools Love Ourselves
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
MOLIERE

God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
MOLIERE

Honest Live Man Passion Worth
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
MOLIERE

Man Myself
Reason is not what decides love.
MOLIERE

Decision Love Reason
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
MOLIERE

Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
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
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
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
MOLIERE

Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
MOLIERE

Job Laughter People
The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

Deep Jealous People
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
MOLIERE

Myself Poet Trouble Writing
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
MOLIERE

Fool Son Yourself
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
MOLIERE

Ambition Greatness Love Woman
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
MOLIERE

Fine Myself Understand Word
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
MOLIERE

Drive Home Reason
I recover my property wherever I find it.
MOLIERE

Finding Myself Property Recover

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