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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

Moliere

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
MOLIERE

Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
I recover my property wherever I find it.
MOLIERE

Finding Myself Property Recover
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
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
MOLIERE

Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
MOLIERE

Children Pain Pleasure
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
MOLIERE

Greatness Rule Simplicity
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
MOLIERE

Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
MOLIERE

Mean People Ridiculous
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
MOLIERE

Civilization Essence People Young
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
MOLIERE

Attack Neighbor Room
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
MOLIERE

Blind Clear Liberty Sight
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
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.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

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