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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.

Moliere

Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

Death Ourselves
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
MOLIERE

Draw Enough Goodness
The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

Death Jealous Willing
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
MOLIERE

Home Lover Stand
The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

Deep Jealous People
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
MOLIERE

Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
MOLIERE

Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
MOLIERE

Love Maturity Money Process Writing
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
MOLIERE

Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
MOLIERE

Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Heaven Known Talk
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
MOLIERE

Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE

Finding Heaven Pleasure True
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
MOLIERE

Angry Right Wrong

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