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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.

Moliere

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
MOLIERE

Control Grammar King
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
MOLIERE

Heart Love Myself World
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
MOLIERE

Cook Food Himself World
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
MOLIERE

Himself Mortal
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
MOLIERE

Angry Right Wrong
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
MOLIERE

Marriage Rule Wife
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
MOLIERE

Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
MOLIERE

Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
But it is not reason that governs love.
MOLIERE

Government Love Reason
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
MOLIERE

Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
MOLIERE

Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
I recover my property wherever I find it.
MOLIERE

Finding Myself Property Recover
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
MOLIERE

Dinner Food Genuine
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
MOLIERE

Human Live Love Powerful
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
MOLIERE

Absence Partner Relationship
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
MOLIERE

Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason

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