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

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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
We die only once, and for such a long time.
MOLIERE

Death Time
There is no protection against slander.
MOLIERE

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

Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
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
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
MOLIERE

Cook Food Himself World
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
MOLIERE

Peace Salvation Yourself
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
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
MOLIERE

Action Heart Ourselves Secret
Ah, there are no longer any children!
MOLIERE

Children Growth One Liner
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
MOLIERE

Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

Death Ourselves
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
MOLIERE

Ambition Greatness Love Woman
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
MOLIERE

Karma Secret
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
MOLIERE

Himself Mortal
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
MOLIERE

Marriage Rule Wife
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
MOLIERE

Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
MOLIERE

Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
MOLIERE

Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
MOLIERE

Better Death Marriage
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
MOLIERE

Death Infidelity Malicious Man
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
MOLIERE

Esteem Meaning Preference
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
MOLIERE

Prose Verse
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
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
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
MOLIERE

Grammar Hands Law Obedience
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
MOLIERE

Born One Liner Virtue

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