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

Moliere

He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
MOLIERE

Himself Kill Money
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
MOLIERE

Amuse Comedy Correct Men
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
MOLIERE

Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
MOLIERE

Affair Strange World
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
MOLIERE

Drive Home Reason
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
MOLIERE

Courage Pity Pretend
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
MOLIERE

Born Virtue
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
MOLIERE

Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
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
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
MOLIERE

Esteem Hold Preference
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
MOLIERE

Heart Love Myself World
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
MOLIERE

Accomplishment Projection Road
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
MOLIERE

Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
MOLIERE

Boredom Happiness Hard Time
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
MOLIERE

Human Myself
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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