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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

Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
MOLIERE

Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
MOLIERE

Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
MOLIERE

Karma Secret
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
MOLIERE

Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
MOLIERE

Marriage Rule Wife
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
MOLIERE

Absence Minimalism
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.
MOLIERE

Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
MOLIERE

Born One Liner Virtue
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
MOLIERE

Nobility Virtue
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Man Necessary
Too great haste leads us to error.
MOLIERE

Error Greatness Haste
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
MOLIERE

Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
MOLIERE

Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

Death Jealous Willing
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
MOLIERE

Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
MOLIERE

Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction

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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