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We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!

Moliere

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
MOLIERE

Drive Home Reason
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
MOLIERE

Cook Food Himself World
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
MOLIERE

Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
MOLIERE

Control Grammar King
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
MOLIERE

Goodness Modeling People Side
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
MOLIERE

Human Live Love Powerful
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
MOLIERE

Himself Kill Money
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
MOLIERE

Fashion Passion People See Strange
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
MOLIERE

Beard Discrimination Power Sex
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
MOLIERE

Learning Nonsense
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
MOLIERE

Culture Hope
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
MOLIERE

Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
MOLIERE

Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
I will maintain it before the whole world.
MOLIERE

Maintain Myself World
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
MOLIERE

Brilliance Touch True
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
MOLIERE

Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason

We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!

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