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

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
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
MOLIERE

Capacity Limitation Occasion
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
MOLIERE

Age People Praise
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
MOLIERE

Easy Humour Moral
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
MOLIERE

Fools Marriage
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
MOLIERE

Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
MOLIERE

Believe Mathematics
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
MOLIERE

Value Worth Yourself
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom

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