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You are a fool in four letters, my son.

Moliere

We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
MOLIERE

Enemy Heart Imposter Live
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
MOLIERE

Government Grammar King
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
MOLIERE

Conquer Gold Love War
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
MOLIERE

Goodness Oneself Thinking
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
MOLIERE

Blush Innocence One Liner
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
MOLIERE

Greatness Love Master Teaching
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Heaven Known Talk
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
MOLIERE

Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
MOLIERE

Knowledge Known
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
MOLIERE

Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
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
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
MOLIERE

Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE

Finding Heaven Pleasure True
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
MOLIERE

Amuse Comedy Correct Men
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
MOLIERE

End Soon
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
MOLIERE

Intimacy Live

You are a fool in four letters, my son.

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