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I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Moliere

Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

Death Ourselves
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
MOLIERE

Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
MOLIERE

Cultivation Interest People
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE

Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
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
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
MOLIERE

Haste Man Marriage Regret
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
MOLIERE

Courage Pity Pretend
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
MOLIERE

Beard Discrimination Power Sex
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
MOLIERE

Mean People Ridiculous
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
MOLIERE

Age Solitude Soul
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
MOLIERE

End Soon
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
MOLIERE

Home Lover Stand
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
MOLIERE

Gratitude Heaven True Way
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
MOLIERE

Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
MOLIERE

Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
MOLIERE

Knowledge Known

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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