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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

All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
MOLIERE

Beard Discrimination Power Sex
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
MOLIERE

Haste Man Marriage Regret
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
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
MOLIERE

Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
MOLIERE

Brilliance Touch True
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
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
MOLIERE

Ambition Greatness Love Woman
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
MOLIERE

Born One Liner Virtue
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
MOLIERE

Easy Humour Moral
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
MOLIERE

Prose Verse
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
MOLIERE

Fool Ignorance Learning
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
MOLIERE

Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
MOLIERE

Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
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
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
MOLIERE

Heart Integrity Virtue
Assassination’s the fastest way.
MOLIERE

Assassination Death Fast Murder Way

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.

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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.

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