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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

Moliere

You are a fool in four letters, my son.
MOLIERE

Fool Son Yourself
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
MOLIERE

Direction Himself Right
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
MOLIERE

Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
MOLIERE

Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
MOLIERE

Greatness Love Master Teaching
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
MOLIERE

Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
MOLIERE

Believe Mathematics
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
MOLIERE

Age Madam Time
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
MOLIERE

Prose Verse
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
MOLIERE

Purpose Serve Understand
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
MOLIERE

Esteem Hold Preference
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE

Finding Heaven Pleasure True
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
MOLIERE

Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
MOLIERE

Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
MOLIERE

Death Leaving Myself See Yourself

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