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How easy love makes fools of us.

Moliere

It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
MOLIERE

Alive Food Goodness Myself
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
MOLIERE

Oneself Talk Word
But it is not reason that governs love.
MOLIERE

Government Love Reason
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
MOLIERE

Man Precise Smart
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Secret Sin
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
MOLIERE

Born One Liner Virtue
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
MOLIERE

Substance Time
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
MOLIERE

Children Pain Pleasure
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

Death Ourselves
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
MOLIERE

Honor Share
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
MOLIERE

Easy Humour Moral
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
MOLIERE

Man Myself
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
MOLIERE

Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

Death Jealous Willing
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
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
MOLIERE

Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
MOLIERE

Fool Son Yourself
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
MOLIERE

Human Myself
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
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
MOLIERE

Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
MOLIERE

Death Knowledge Life Shadow
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
MOLIERE

Karma Secret
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
MOLIERE

Esteem Hold Preference
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
MOLIERE

Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue

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