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It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.

Moliere

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

Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
MOLIERE

Better Death Marriage
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
MOLIERE

Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
MOLIERE

Action Heart Ourselves Secret
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
MOLIERE

Complete Project Road
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
MOLIERE

Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
MOLIERE

Eat Enough Food
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
MOLIERE

Direction Himself Right
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
MOLIERE

Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
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.
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Home Lover Stand
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
MOLIERE

Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
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.
MOLIERE

Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

Death Ourselves
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
MOLIERE

Purpose Serve Understand

It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.

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It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.

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