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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.

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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
MOLIERE

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

Fruit Growth Slow Tree
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
MOLIERE

Capacity Limitation Occasion
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
MOLIERE

Fool Son Yourself
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
MOLIERE

Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
MOLIERE

Death People Remedy Sick
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
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

Death Ourselves
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
MOLIERE

Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
MOLIERE

Devil Live People Poor World Writing
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
MOLIERE

Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
Ah, there are no longer any children!
MOLIERE

Children Growth One Liner
The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

Death Jealous Willing
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
MOLIERE

Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
MOLIERE

Eat Enough Food
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
MOLIERE

Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom

Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.

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