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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.

Moliere

One should eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE

Eat Live Oneself
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
MOLIERE

Fruit Growth Slow Tree
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
MOLIERE

Reason Sacred Thinking
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
MOLIERE

Amuse Comedy Correct Men
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
MOLIERE

Courage Pity Pretend
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
MOLIERE

Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
MOLIERE

Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
I will maintain it before the whole world.
MOLIERE

Maintain Myself World
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
MOLIERE

Fruit Love Marriage
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
MOLIERE

Absence Partner Relationship
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
MOLIERE

Gratitude Heaven True Way
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
MOLIERE

Absence Minimalism
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
MOLIERE

Cure Husband Woman
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
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
MOLIERE

Direct Error Haste Reason
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
MOLIERE

Capacity Limitation Occasion

It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.

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