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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.

Moliere

You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
MOLIERE

Death Time Yourself
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
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
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 good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
MOLIERE

Alive Food Goodness Myself
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
MOLIERE

Reason Sacred Thinking
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
MOLIERE

Blind Clear Liberty Sight
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
MOLIERE

Home Lover Stand
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
Music and dance are all you need.
MOLIERE

Dance Music Need
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
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
MOLIERE

Born Virtue
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
MOLIERE

Believe Mathematics
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
MOLIERE

Honest Live Man Passion Worth
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
MOLIERE

Chance Myself Show Writing

The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.

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