Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
MOLIERETo 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.
More Moliere Quotes
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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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At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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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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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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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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There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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