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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.

Moliere

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
MOLIERE

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

Drive Home Reason
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

Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
MOLIERE

Fool Son Yourself
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
MOLIERE

Judgment Ourselves
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
MOLIERE

Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
MOLIERE

Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
MOLIERE

Haste Man Marriage Regret
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
MOLIERE

Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
MOLIERE

Himself Kill Money
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
MOLIERE

Home Lover Stand
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
MOLIERE

Culture Hope
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
MOLIERE

Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE

Eat Live Oneself
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
MOLIERE

Ambition Greatness Love Woman

I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.

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