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

Moliere

Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
MOLIERE

Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
MOLIERE

Cook Food Himself World
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
MOLIERE

Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
MOLIERE

Knowledge Known
We are easily duped by those we love.
MOLIERE

Easy Heart Love
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
MOLIERE

Age Solitude Soul
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
MOLIERE

Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
MOLIERE

Double Grief Increase Yourself
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Hook Intelligence
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
MOLIERE

Blush Innocence One Liner
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
MOLIERE

Charity Known Money Yourself
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
MOLIERE

Courage Pity Pretend
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
MOLIERE

Love Season Thinking
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
MOLIERE

Fruit Growth Slow Tree
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
MOLIERE

Marriage Rule Wife
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
MOLIERE

Esteem Meaning Preference

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

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