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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.

Moliere

Books and marriage go ill together.
MOLIERE

Book Marriage Sick
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
MOLIERE

Beyond Compare Try World
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
MOLIERE

Goodness Modeling People Side
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
MOLIERE

Purpose Serve Understand
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
MOLIERE

People Praise Season Swallow
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
MOLIERE

Born Virtue
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
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
MOLIERE

Mindset Need Play Work
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
MOLIERE

Heart Love Myself World
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
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
MOLIERE

Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
MOLIERE

Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

Deep Jealous People
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
MOLIERE

Cook Food Himself World
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
MOLIERE

Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Better Greatness Place World
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
MOLIERE

Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

Death Ourselves
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
MOLIERE

Laughter People Respect Strange
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
MOLIERE

Absence Minimalism
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
MOLIERE

Value Worth Yourself
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
MOLIERE

Body Cover Soul Wound
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
MOLIERE

Oneself Talk Word
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
MOLIERE

Easy Humour Moral
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
MOLIERE

Cultivation Interest People
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste

Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.

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