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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

Moliere

When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
MOLIERE

Goodness Modeling People Side
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
MOLIERE

Culture Hope
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
MOLIERE

Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
MOLIERE

Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
MOLIERE

Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
MOLIERE

Charity Known Money Yourself
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
MOLIERE

Believe Mathematics
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
MOLIERE

Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
MOLIERE

Fashion Passion People See Strange

People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

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