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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

Moliere

Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
MOLIERE

Marriage Rule Wife
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
MOLIERE

Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
MOLIERE

Prose Verse
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
MOLIERE

Action Responsibility Silence
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
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
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
MOLIERE

Grammar Hands Law Obedience
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
MOLIERE

Brilliance Touch True
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
MOLIERE

Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
MOLIERE

Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
MOLIERE

Intimacy Live
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
MOLIERE

Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
MOLIERE

End Soon
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE

Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

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

Knowledge Known

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