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To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.

Moliere

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

Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
MOLIERE

Ancestor People Present
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
MOLIERE

Alive Food Goodness Myself
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
MOLIERE

Direct Error Haste Reason
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
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
MOLIERE

Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
MOLIERE

Criticism Love Proof True
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
MOLIERE

Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
MOLIERE

Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
MOLIERE

Fools Marriage
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
MOLIERE

Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
MOLIERE

Value Worth Yourself
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
MOLIERE

Born Virtue
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
MOLIERE

Friendship Love Purity
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
MOLIERE

Fruit Growth Slow Tree
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
MOLIERE

Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession

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