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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.

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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
MOLIERE

Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
MOLIERE

Medicine Money Trade Yourself
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
MOLIERE

Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
MOLIERE

Nobility Virtue
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
MOLIERE

Age People Praise
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
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
MOLIERE

Direction Himself Right
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
MOLIERE

Civilization Essence People Young
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
MOLIERE

Mindset Need Play Work
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera

In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.

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