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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

Moliere

You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
MOLIERE

Learning Nonsense
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
MOLIERE

Easy Fools Love Oneself
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
MOLIERE

Substance Time
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
MOLIERE

Fool Ignorance Learning
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
MOLIERE

Death Knowledge Life Shadow
Ah, there are no longer any children!
MOLIERE

Children Growth One Liner
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
MOLIERE

Home Lover Stand
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
MOLIERE

Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
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.

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