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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

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

Death Time Yourself
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
MOLIERE

Death People Remedy Sick
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
MOLIERE

Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
MOLIERE

Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
MOLIERE

Believe God Heaven
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
MOLIERE

Government Grammar King
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
MOLIERE

Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
MOLIERE

Easy Humour Moral
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
MOLIERE

Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
MOLIERE

Esteem Hold Preference
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
MOLIERE

Blush Innocence One Liner
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
MOLIERE

Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
MOLIERE

Nobility Virtue
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
MOLIERE

Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
MOLIERE

Honor Share
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
MOLIERE

Judgment Ourselves

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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