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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.

Moliere

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

Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
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
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
MOLIERE

Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
MOLIERE

Draw Enough Goodness
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
MOLIERE

Esteem Hold Preference
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
MOLIERE

Follow Lesson Peace Taste
Ah, there are no longer any children!
MOLIERE

Children Growth One Liner
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
MOLIERE

Dance Man One Liner
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
MOLIERE

Death Man Medicine Sick
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
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
MOLIERE

Herself Laughter Yourself
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
MOLIERE

Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
MOLIERE

Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
MOLIERE

Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
MOLIERE

Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
MOLIERE

Heart Integrity Virtue

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