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No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.

Moliere

To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
MOLIERE

Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
MOLIERE

Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
MOLIERE

Mean People Ridiculous
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
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
The smallest errors are always the best.
MOLIERE

Best Error Small
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
MOLIERE

Follow Lesson Peace Taste
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
MOLIERE

Amuse Comedy Correct Men
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
MOLIERE

Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
MOLIERE

Improvement Mistake Try World
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
MOLIERE

Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
MOLIERE

Himself Mortal
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
MOLIERE

Body Cover Soul Wound
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman

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