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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

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

Drive Home Reason
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
MOLIERE

Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
MOLIERE

Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
Music and dance are all you need.
MOLIERE

Dance Music Need
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
MOLIERE

Death Knowledge Life Shadow
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
MOLIERE

Friendship Love Purity
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue

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