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Moliere

He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
MOLIERE

Cook Food Himself World
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
MOLIERE

Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
MOLIERE

Direction Himself Right
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
MOLIERE

Absence Minimalism
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
MOLIERE

Man Myself
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
MOLIERE

Beyond Compare Try World
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
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

Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
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
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
MOLIERE

Marriage Rule Wife
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
MOLIERE

Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
MOLIERE

Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
MOLIERE

Haste Man Marriage Regret
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
MOLIERE

Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
MOLIERE

Charity Known Money Yourself
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
MOLIERE

Ancestor Father Marriage Myself

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