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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.

Moliere

It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
MOLIERE

Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price
The smallest errors are always the best.
MOLIERE

Best Error Small
I recover my property wherever I find it.
MOLIERE

Finding Myself Property Recover
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
MOLIERE

Esteem Hold Preference
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
MOLIERE

Easy Humour Moral
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
MOLIERE

Cultivation Interest People
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
MOLIERE

Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
MOLIERE

Human Myself
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
MOLIERE

Ambition Greatness Love Woman
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
MOLIERE

Charm Expression Fact Lying
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
MOLIERE

Direct Error Haste Reason
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
MOLIERE

Love Season Thinking
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
MOLIERE

Job Laughter People
We are easily duped by those we love.
MOLIERE

Easy Heart Love
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
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Hook Intelligence

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