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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

Moliere

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

Eat Enough Food
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
MOLIERE

Human Live Love Powerful
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
MOLIERE

Government Grammar King
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
How easy love makes fools of us.
MOLIERE

Easy Fools Love Ourselves
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
MOLIERE

Talk Understand Well Yourself
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
MOLIERE

Drugs Equality Life Live Philosophy Worth
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Heaven Known Talk
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
MOLIERE

Fool Son Yourself
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
MOLIERE

Direction Himself Right
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
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
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
MOLIERE

Attack Neighbor Room
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
MOLIERE

Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
MOLIERE

Myself Poet Trouble Writing
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
MOLIERE

Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself

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