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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

Moliere

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

Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
MOLIERE

Manage Talk Understand
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
MOLIERE

Value Worth Yourself
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
MOLIERE

Reason Sacred Thinking
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
MOLIERE

Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
MOLIERE

Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
MOLIERE

Eat Enough Food
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
MOLIERE

Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
We die only once, and for such a long time.
MOLIERE

Death Time
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
MOLIERE

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

Follow Lesson Peace Taste
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
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
MOLIERE

Instruction Smile Youth
But it is not reason that governs love.
MOLIERE

Government Love Reason
How easy love makes fools of us.
MOLIERE

Easy Fools Love Ourselves

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