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To marry a fool is to be no fool.

Moliere

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
MOLIERE

Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Blush Innocence One Liner
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
MOLIERE

Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
MOLIERE

Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
MOLIERE

Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
MOLIERE

Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
MOLIERE

Action Responsibility Silence
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
MOLIERE

Fool Son Yourself
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
MOLIERE

Karma Secret
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
MOLIERE

Charity Known Money Yourself
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
MOLIERE

Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
MOLIERE

Love Season Thinking
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
MOLIERE

Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
MOLIERE

Affair Strange World
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
MOLIERE

Greatness Love Master Teaching
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

To marry a fool is to be no fool.

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