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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

Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
MOLIERE

Direction Himself Right
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
MOLIERE

Children Pain Pleasure
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
MOLIERE

Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
MOLIERE

Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
MOLIERE

Boredom Happiness Hard Time
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
MOLIERE

Beyond Compare Try World
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
MOLIERE

Learning Nonsense
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
MOLIERE

Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
MOLIERE

Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
MOLIERE

Dinner Food Genuine
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
MOLIERE

Age Solitude Soul
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
MOLIERE

Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
But it is not reason that governs love.
MOLIERE

Government Love Reason
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
MOLIERE

Manage Talk Understand
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
MOLIERE

Eat Enough Food

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