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The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.

Moliere

Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE

Finding Heaven Pleasure True
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
MOLIERE

Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
MOLIERE

Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
MOLIERE

Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
MOLIERE

Draw Enough Goodness
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
MOLIERE

Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

Death Jealous Willing
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
MOLIERE

Death People Remedy Sick
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
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
MOLIERE

Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
MOLIERE

Better Greatness Place World
Books and marriage go ill together.
MOLIERE

Book Marriage Sick
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
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
MOLIERE

Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
MOLIERE

Believe Mathematics

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.

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