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There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.

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
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
MOLIERE

Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
MOLIERE

Alive Food Goodness Myself
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
MOLIERE

Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
MOLIERE

Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
MOLIERE

Intimacy Live
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
MOLIERE

Death Man Medicine Sick
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
MOLIERE

Friendship Love Purity
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
MOLIERE

Fools Marriage
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
MOLIERE

Beard Discrimination Power Sex
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
MOLIERE

Absence Minimalism
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
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
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
MOLIERE

Cure Husband Woman

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