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

Moliere

Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

Death Ourselves
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE

Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
The smallest errors are always the best.
MOLIERE

Best Errors Small
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
MOLIERE

Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
MOLIERE

Angry Right Wrong
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
MOLIERE

Beard Discrimination Power Sex
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
MOLIERE

Substance Time
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
MOLIERE

Death Time Yourself
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
MOLIERE

Born One Liner Virtue
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
MOLIERE

Action Heart Ourselves Secret
How easy love makes fools of us.
MOLIERE

Easy Fools Love Ourselves
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Heaven Known Talk
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Hook Intelligence
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
MOLIERE

Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
MOLIERE

Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness

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

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