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I live on good soup, not on fine words.

Moliere

It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
MOLIERE

Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
MOLIERE

Cultivation Interest People
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
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
MOLIERE

Born One Liner Virtue
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
MOLIERE

Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
MOLIERE

Enemy Heart Imposter Live
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
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
MOLIERE

Believe Mathematics
I recover my property wherever I find it.
MOLIERE

Finding Myself Property Recover
Assassination’s the fastest way.
MOLIERE

Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Secret Sin
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Hook Intelligence
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope

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