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All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe

Moliere

Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
MOLIERE

Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
MOLIERE

Attack Neighbor Room
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
MOLIERE

Greatness Love Master Teaching
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
MOLIERE

Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
MOLIERE

Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
I will maintain it before the whole world.
MOLIERE

Maintain Myself World
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Hook Intelligence
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
MOLIERE

Creation Private Sin Wicket
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
MOLIERE

Follow Lesson Peace Taste
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
MOLIERE

Age Madam Time
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
MOLIERE

Man Precise Smart
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
MOLIERE

Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
MOLIERE

Enemy Heart Imposter Live
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
MOLIERE

Death Knowledge Life Shadow

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