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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.

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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
MOLIERE

Fine Myself Understand Word
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
MOLIERE

Government Grammar King
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
MOLIERE

Love Maturity Money Process Writing
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
MOLIERE

Easy Humour Moral
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Man Necessary
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
MOLIERE

Bad Goodness
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
MOLIERE

Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
MOLIERE

Laughter People Respect Strange
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
MOLIERE

Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
MOLIERE

Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
MOLIERE

Honest Live Man Passion Worth
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
MOLIERE

Learning Nonsense
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
MOLIERE

Fashion Passion People See Strange
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
MOLIERE

Accomplishment Projection Road
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
MOLIERE

Death Knowledge Life Shadow
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
MOLIERE

Friendship Love Purity

All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.

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