Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.

To live without loving is not really to live.
MOLIERE

Live Love Wasted
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
MOLIERE

Easy Humour Moral
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
MOLIERE

Greatness Love Master Teaching
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
MOLIERE

Instruction Smile Youth
There is no protection against slander.
MOLIERE

Protection
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
MOLIERE

Medicine Money Trade Yourself
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Man Necessary
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
MOLIERE

Civilization Essence People Young
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
MOLIERE

Easy Fools Love Oneself
How easy love makes fools of us.
MOLIERE

Easy Fools Love Ourselves
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
MOLIERE

Learning Nonsense
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
MOLIERE

Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
MOLIERE

Control Grammar King
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
The smallest errors are always the best.
MOLIERE

Best Errors Small

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