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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.

Moliere

Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
MOLIERE

Born One Liner Virtue
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
MOLIERE

Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
MOLIERE

Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
MOLIERE

Conquer Gold Love War
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
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
MOLIERE

Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
MOLIERE

Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
MOLIERE

Mean People Ridiculous
I recover my property wherever I find it.
MOLIERE

Finding Myself Property Recover
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
MOLIERE

Fashion Passion People See Strange
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
MOLIERE

Alive Food Goodness Myself
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
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
MOLIERE

Value Worth Yourself
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
MOLIERE

Children Pain Pleasure
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
MOLIERE

Believe God Heaven
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
MOLIERE

Himself Kill Money

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