I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
MOLIEREOne is easily fooled by that which one loves.
More Moliere Quotes
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You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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A woman always has her revenge ready.
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Music and dance are all you need.
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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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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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Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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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.
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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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We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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