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

Moliere

The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
MOLIERE

Criticism Love Proof True
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
MOLIERE

Prose Verse
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
MOLIERE

Book Marvelous
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
MOLIERE

Age Solitude Soul
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
MOLIERE

Nobility Virtue
I recover my property wherever I find it.
MOLIERE

Finding Myself Property Recover
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
MOLIERE

Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
MOLIERE

Charm Expression Fact Lying
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
MOLIERE

Forever Friendship Myself
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
MOLIERE

End Soon
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
MOLIERE

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

Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
To live without loving is not really to live.
MOLIERE

Live Love Wasted
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
MOLIERE

Heart Integrity Virtue
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
MOLIERE

Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price

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