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Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.

Moliere

Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
MOLIERE

Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
MOLIERE

Born One Liner Virtue
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
MOLIERE

Right True Zeal
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
MOLIERE

Herself Laughter Yourself
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
MOLIERE

Fool Son Yourself
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
MOLIERE

Man Myself
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
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
MOLIERE

Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
MOLIERE

Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
MOLIERE

Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
MOLIERE

Dinner Food Genuine
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
MOLIERE

Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
MOLIERE

Man Precise Smart
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
MOLIERE

Instruction Smile Youth

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