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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

Moliere

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
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
MOLIERE

Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
MOLIERE

Manage Talk Understand
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
Books and marriage go ill together.
MOLIERE

Book Marriage Sick
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
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
MOLIERE

Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
MOLIERE

Fool Son Yourself
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
MOLIERE

Preference Vice Virtue
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
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Heaven Known Talk
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
MOLIERE

Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
MOLIERE

Man Myself
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
MOLIERE

Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
MOLIERE

Myself Poet Trouble Writing

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