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

Moliere

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
MOLIERE

God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
MOLIERE

Substance Time
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
MOLIERE

Fashion Passion People See Strange
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
MOLIERE

Dinner Food Genuine
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
MOLIERE

Nobility Virtue
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
MOLIERE

Home Lover Stand
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
MOLIERE

Easy Fools Love Oneself
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
MOLIERE

Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
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
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE

Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
MOLIERE

Angry Right Wrong
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
MOLIERE

Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
MOLIERE

Himself Kill Money
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
MOLIERE

Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
MOLIERE

Man Myself
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
MOLIERE

Greatness Love Master Teaching

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

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