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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

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
MOLIERE

Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
Ah, there are no longer any children!
MOLIERE

Children Growth One Liner
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
MOLIERE

Control Grammar King
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE

Finding Heaven Pleasure True
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
MOLIERE

Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
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
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
MOLIERE

Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness

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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