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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

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
MOLIERE

Heart Integrity Virtue
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
MOLIERE

Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
MOLIERE

Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
MOLIERE

Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
MOLIERE

Prose Verse
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
MOLIERE

Believe Mathematics
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
MOLIERE

Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
MOLIERE

Drive Home Reason
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
MOLIERE

Death Time Yourself
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
MOLIERE

Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
MOLIERE

Born One Liner Virtue
Assassination’s the fastest way.
MOLIERE

Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
MOLIERE

Affair Charm Gold Misery
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
MOLIERE

Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
MOLIERE

Medicine Money Trade Yourself

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