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New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.

Moliere

Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
MOLIERE

Death Man Medicine Sick
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
MOLIERE

Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
MOLIERE

Purpose Serve Understand
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
MOLIERE

Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
MOLIERE

Forever Friendship Myself
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
MOLIERE

Beard Discrimination Power Sex
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
MOLIERE

Gratitude Heaven True Way
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
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
MOLIERE

Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
MOLIERE

Greatness Rule Simplicity
Books and marriage go ill together.
MOLIERE

Book Marriage Sick
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
MOLIERE

Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
MOLIERE

Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
MOLIERE

Charity Known Money Yourself
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
MOLIERE

Instruction Smile Youth
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
MOLIERE

Substance Time

New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.

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