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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

To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
MOLIERE

Creation Private Sin Wicket
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
MOLIERE

Angry Right Wrong
Ah, there are no longer any children!
MOLIERE

Children Growth One Liner
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
MOLIERE

Control Grammar King
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Hook Intelligence
Reason is not what decides love.
MOLIERE

Decision Love Reason
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
MOLIERE

Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
MOLIERE

Haste Man Marriage Regret
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
MOLIERE

Manage Talk Understand
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
MOLIERE

Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
MOLIERE

Body Cover Soul Wound
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
MOLIERE

Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
MOLIERE

Learning People Quality
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
MOLIERE

Devil Live People Poor World Writing
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
MOLIERE

Heart Integrity Virtue
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
MOLIERE

Age Feeling Moral Myself Time

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?

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