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

Moliere

Things are only worth what you make them worth.
MOLIERE

Value Worth Yourself
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
MOLIERE

Himself Kill Money
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
MOLIERE

Prose Verse
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
MOLIERE

Improvement Mistake Try World
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
MOLIERE

Death Infidelity Malicious Man
The smallest errors are always the best.
MOLIERE

Best Errors Small
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
MOLIERE

Right True Zeal
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
MOLIERE

Attack Neighbor Room
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
MOLIERE

Laughter People Respect Strange
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
MOLIERE

Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
MOLIERE

Capacity Limitation Occasion
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
MOLIERE

Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
MOLIERE

Death Man Medicine Sick
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
MOLIERE

Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
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
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
MOLIERE

Oneself Talk Word

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

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