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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.

Moliere

It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE

Finding Heaven Pleasure True
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
MOLIERE

Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
MOLIERE

Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
MOLIERE

Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
MOLIERE

Fine Myself Understand Word
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
MOLIERE

Honest Live Man Passion Worth
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
MOLIERE

Cook Food Himself World
But it is not reason that governs love.
MOLIERE

Government Love Reason
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
MOLIERE

Man Myself
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
MOLIERE

Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
MOLIERE

Himself Kill Money
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
MOLIERE

Oneself Talk Word
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
MOLIERE

Criticism Love Proof True
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE

Eat Live Oneself
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
MOLIERE

Esteem Hold Preference
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
MOLIERE

Ancestor Father Marriage Myself

Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.

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