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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

Moliere

Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
MOLIERE

Believe God Heaven
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Heaven Known Talk
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
MOLIERE

Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
MOLIERE

Children Pain Pleasure
Books and marriage go ill together.
MOLIERE

Book Marriage Sick
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
MOLIERE

Prose Verse
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
MOLIERE

Control Grammar King
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
MOLIERE

Value Worth Yourself
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
MOLIERE

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

Finding Heaven Pleasure True
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
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
MOLIERE

Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
MOLIERE

Learning People Quality
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
MOLIERE

Instruction Smile Youth
Reason is not what decides love.
MOLIERE

Decision Love Reason
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
MOLIERE

Human Myself

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