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Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!

Moliere

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

Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
Reason is not what decides love.
MOLIERE

Decision Love Reason
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
MOLIERE

Government Grammar King
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
MOLIERE

Absence Minimalism
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
MOLIERE

Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
MOLIERE

Attack Neighbor Room
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
MOLIERE

Death Man Medicine Sick
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
MOLIERE

Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
MOLIERE

Children Time
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
MOLIERE

Cultivation Interest People
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
MOLIERE

Improvement Mistake Try World
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
MOLIERE

Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
MOLIERE

Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
MOLIERE

Death Infidelity Malicious Man
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
MOLIERE

End Soon
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
MOLIERE

Goodness Oneself Thinking

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