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Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

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
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
MOLIERE

Man Myself
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
MOLIERE

Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
MOLIERE

Goodness Oneself Thinking
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
MOLIERE

Body Cover Soul Wound
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
MOLIERE

Learning People Quality
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
MOLIERE

Born Virtue
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
MOLIERE

Fool Ignorance Learning
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
MOLIERE

Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
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
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE

Eat Live Oneself
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
MOLIERE

Fashion Passion People See Strange
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
MOLIERE

Alive Food Goodness Myself
We die only once, and for such a long time.
MOLIERE

Death Time
The smallest errors are always the best.
MOLIERE

Best Error Small

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

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