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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
MOLIERE

Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
MOLIERE

Action Responsibility Silence
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
MOLIERE

Friendship Man Myself Truth
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
MOLIERE

Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
MOLIERE

Prose Verse
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
MOLIERE

Offend Silence Sin World
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
MOLIERE

Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
MOLIERE

Enemy Heart Imposter Live
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
MOLIERE

Cook Food Himself World
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
MOLIERE

Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
MOLIERE

Beyond Compare Try World
We are easily duped by those we love.
MOLIERE

Easy Heart Love
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
MOLIERE

Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
MOLIERE

Home Lover Stand
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
MOLIERE

Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
MOLIERE

Civilization Essence People Young
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
MOLIERE

Learning Nonsense
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
MOLIERE

Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
MOLIERE

Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Hook Intelligence
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
MOLIERE

Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

Death Ourselves
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
MOLIERE

Marriage Rule Wife
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
MOLIERE

Criticism Love Proof True
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
MOLIERE

Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous

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