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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
MOLIERE

Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
MOLIERE

Esteem Hold Preference
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
MOLIERE

Instruction Smile Youth
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
MOLIERE

Ancestor People Present
Music and dance are all you need.
MOLIERE

Dance Music Need
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
MOLIERE

Manage Talk Understand
Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
How easy love makes fools of us.
MOLIERE

Easy Fools Love Ourselves
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
MOLIERE

Affair Charm Gold Misery
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
MOLIERE

Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
MOLIERE

Eat Enough Food
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
MOLIERE

Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Easy Myself
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin

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