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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
MOLIERE

Fools Marriage
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
MOLIERE

Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
MOLIERE

Amuse Comedy Correct Men
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
MOLIERE

Substance Time
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
MOLIERE

Esteem Hold Preference
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
MOLIERE

Forever Friendship Myself
The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

Death Jealous Willing
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
MOLIERE

Absence Partner Relationship
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
MOLIERE

Culture Hope
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
MOLIERE

Oneself Talk Word
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
MOLIERE

Action Responsibility Silence
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
MOLIERE

Fashion Hypocrisy Pass 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.
MOLIERE

Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
MOLIERE

Goodness Oneself Thinking
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Man Necessary
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
MOLIERE

Death People Remedy Sick

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

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