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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

Moliere

Virtue is the first title of nobility.
MOLIERE

Nobility Virtue
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
MOLIERE

Purpose Serve Understand
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
MOLIERE

Beyond Compare Try World
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
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
MOLIERE

People Praise Season Swallow
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
MOLIERE

Better Death Marriage
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
MOLIERE

Affair Charm Gold Misery
Ah, there are no longer any children!
MOLIERE

Children Growth One Liner
How easy love makes fools of us.
MOLIERE

Easy Fools Love Ourselves
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
MOLIERE

Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
MOLIERE

Eat Enough Food
Assassination’s the fastest way.
MOLIERE

Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
MOLIERE

Capacity Limitation Occasion
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
MOLIERE

Improvement Mistake Try World
We are easily duped by those we love.
MOLIERE

Easy Heart Love
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
MOLIERE

Children Time
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
MOLIERE

Absence Minimalism
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
MOLIERE

Peace Salvation Yourself
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
MOLIERE

Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
MOLIERE

Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
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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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
MOLIERE

Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
I will maintain it before the whole world.
MOLIERE

Maintain Myself World
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend

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