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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

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
MOLIERE

Manage Talk Understand
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
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
MOLIERE

Karma Secret
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
MOLIERE

Mean People Ridiculous
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
MOLIERE

Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
MOLIERE

Attack Neighbor Room
The smallest errors are always the best.
MOLIERE

Best Error Small
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
MOLIERE

Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
MOLIERE

Blind Clear Liberty Sight
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
MOLIERE

Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
MOLIERE

Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
MOLIERE

Accomplishment Projection Road

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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