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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.

Moliere

Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
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.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
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!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise

Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.

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