Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
MOLIEREOne is easily fooled by that which one loves.
More Moliere Quotes
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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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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I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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