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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

Moliere

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
MOLIERE

Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
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
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
MOLIERE

Body Cover Soul Wound
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
MOLIERE

Right True Zeal
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
MOLIERE

Himself Kill Money
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
MOLIERE

Age Solitude Soul
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
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
MOLIERE

Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

Death Ourselves
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
MOLIERE

Himself Mortal
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
MOLIERE

Man Myself
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Hook Intelligence
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
MOLIERE

Better Greatness Place World
I recover my property wherever I find it.
MOLIERE

Finding Myself Property Recover
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
MOLIERE

Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
MOLIERE

Age Madam Time

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