The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
MOLIEREAnd with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
More Moliere Quotes
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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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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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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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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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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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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 is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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