It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
MOLIEREHow easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
More Moliere Quotes
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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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.
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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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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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People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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