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

Moliere

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
MOLIERE

Knowledge Known
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
MOLIERE

Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
MOLIERE

Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
Books and marriage go ill together.
MOLIERE

Book Marriage Sick
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
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
MOLIERE

Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
MOLIERE

Charm Expression Fact Lying
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
MOLIERE

Learning People Quality
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
MOLIERE

Absence Partner Relationship
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
MOLIERE

Born One Liner Virtue
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

Deep Jealous People
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
MOLIERE

Absence Minimalism
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
MOLIERE

Draw Enough Goodness
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
MOLIERE

Behavior Friendship Ridiculous

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

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