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

Moliere

She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
MOLIERE

Herself Laughter Yourself
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
MOLIERE

Purpose Serve Understand
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
MOLIERE

Better Greatness Place World
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
MOLIERE

Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
MOLIERE

Ambition Greatness Love Woman
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
MOLIERE

Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
MOLIERE

Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
MOLIERE

Gratitude Heaven True Way
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
MOLIERE

Fools Marriage
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
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
MOLIERE

Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
MOLIERE

Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
But it is not reason that governs love.
MOLIERE

Government Love Reason
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
MOLIERE

Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
MOLIERE

Draw Enough Goodness
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Secret Sin
Books and marriage go ill together.
MOLIERE

Book Marriage Sick
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
MOLIERE

People Praise Season Swallow
The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

Deep Jealous People
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
MOLIERE

Value Worth Yourself
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
MOLIERE

Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
MOLIERE

Manage Talk Understand
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
MOLIERE

Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
It is a long road from conception to completion.
MOLIERE

Complete Concept Road
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
MOLIERE

Oneself Talk Word
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
MOLIERE

Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
MOLIERE

Amuse Comedy Correct Men

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