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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

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

Cure Husband Woman
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
MOLIERE

Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
MOLIERE

Haste Man Marriage Regret
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
MOLIERE

Peace Salvation Yourself
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
MOLIERE

Believe Mathematics
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
MOLIERE

Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
MOLIERE

Easy Fools Love Oneself
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
MOLIERE

Absence Partner Relationship
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Hook Intelligence
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
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
MOLIERE

Better Death Marriage
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
MOLIERE

Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known

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.

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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.

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