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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.

Moliere

You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
MOLIERE

Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
MOLIERE

Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
MOLIERE

Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
MOLIERE

Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
MOLIERE

Death Infidelity Malicious Man
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
MOLIERE

Mean People Ridiculous
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
MOLIERE

Body Cover Soul Wound
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
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
MOLIERE

Absence Partner Relationship
The smallest errors are always the best.
MOLIERE

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

Manage Talk Understand
We die only once, and for such a long time.
MOLIERE

Death Time
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Man Necessary
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
MOLIERE

Bad Goodness
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
MOLIERE

Fashion Passion People See Strange
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

My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.

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