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It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.

Moliere

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

Man Myself
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
MOLIERE

Purpose Serve Understand
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
MOLIERE

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

Age Madam Time
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
MOLIERE

Right True Zeal
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
MOLIERE

Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
I have the knack of easing scruples.
MOLIERE

Easy Myself
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
MOLIERE

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

Fine Myself Understand Word
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
MOLIERE

Affair Strange World
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
MOLIERE

Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
MOLIERE

Manage Talk Understand
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
MOLIERE

Death People Remedy Sick
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
MOLIERE

Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE

Finding Heaven Pleasure True
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
MOLIERE

Cure Husband Woman

It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.

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