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They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.

Moliere

Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
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.
MOLIERE

Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
MOLIERE

Dinner Food Genuine
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
MOLIERE

Conquer Gold Love War
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
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
MOLIERE

Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
MOLIERE

Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
MOLIERE

Absence Partner Relationship
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
MOLIERE

Love Season Thinking
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
MOLIERE

Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
MOLIERE

Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
MOLIERE

Value Worth Yourself
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
MOLIERE

Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
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

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