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All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.

Moliere

The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
MOLIERE

Accomplishment Projection Road
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
MOLIERE

Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
MOLIERE

Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
MOLIERE

Learning Nonsense
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
MOLIERE

Greatness Rule Simplicity
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
MOLIERE

Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
MOLIERE

Dinner Food Genuine
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
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
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
MOLIERE

Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
MOLIERE

Direction Himself Right
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick

All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.

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All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.

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