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

Moliere

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
MOLIERE

Amuse Comedy Correct Men
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
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
MOLIERE

Intimacy Live
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
MOLIERE

Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
MOLIERE

Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
MOLIERE

Himself Kill Money
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
MOLIERE

Boredom Happiness Hard Time
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
MOLIERE

Attack Neighbor Room
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
MOLIERE

People Praise Season Swallow
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
MOLIERE

Human Myself
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
MOLIERE

Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
MOLIERE

Cure Husband Woman
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
MOLIERE

Beyond Compare Try World
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
MOLIERE

Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
MOLIERE

Esteem Hold Preference
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
MOLIERE

Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm

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