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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?

Moliere

Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
MOLIERE

Death People Remedy Sick
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
MOLIERE

Fool Son Yourself
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
MOLIERE

Cure Husband Woman
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
MOLIERE

Absence Partner Relationship
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Heaven Known Talk
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
MOLIERE

Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
MOLIERE

Absence Minimalism
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
MOLIERE

Home Lover Stand
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
MOLIERE

Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
MOLIERE

Born Virtue
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
MOLIERE

Dance Man One Liner
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
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

Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
MOLIERE

Learning Nonsense
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
MOLIERE

Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
MOLIERE

Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust

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