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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
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
MOLIERE

Man Precise Smart
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
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
MOLIERE

Honest Live Man Passion Worth
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
MOLIERE

Marriage Rule Wife
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
MOLIERE

Fine Myself Understand Word
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
MOLIERE

Beyond Compare Try World
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
MOLIERE

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

Purpose Serve Understand
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
MOLIERE

Oneself Talk Word
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
MOLIERE

Fruit Love Marriage
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
MOLIERE

Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
MOLIERE

Amuse Comedy Correct Men
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
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
MOLIERE

Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
MOLIERE

Preference Vice Virtue
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
MOLIERE

Himself Spiritual
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
MOLIERE

Believe God Heaven
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
MOLIERE

Esteem Meaning Preference
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
MOLIERE

Reason Sacred Thinking
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
MOLIERE

Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
MOLIERE

Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
MOLIERE

Direct Error Haste Reason
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
MOLIERE

Herself Laughter Yourself

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