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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

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
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
MOLIERE

Age Madam Time
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
MOLIERE

Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
MOLIERE

Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
MOLIERE

Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
MOLIERE

Friendship Man Myself Truth
We die only once, and for such a long time.
MOLIERE

Death Time
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
MOLIERE

Easy Humour Moral
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
MOLIERE

Man Precise Smart
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
MOLIERE

Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
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
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
MOLIERE

Blind Clear Liberty Sight
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
MOLIERE

Job Laughter People
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
MOLIERE

Cure Husband Woman
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
MOLIERE

Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
MOLIERE

Intimacy Live

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.

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