Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
MOLIEREThe absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
More Moliere Quotes
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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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?
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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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I recover my property wherever I find it.
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There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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