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All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.

Moliere

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
MOLIERE

Double Grief Increase Yourself
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
MOLIERE

Love Maturity Money Process Writing
The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

Deep Jealous People
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
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
MOLIERE

Greatness Rule Simplicity
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
MOLIERE

Bad Goodness
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
MOLIERE

Cheating Hold Infidelity
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
MOLIERE

Boredom Happiness Hard Time
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
MOLIERE

Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
MOLIERE

Prose Verse
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
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
MOLIERE

Chance Myself Show Writing
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
MOLIERE

Direct Error Haste Reason
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
MOLIERE

Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm

All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.

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