That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
MOLIEREHow easy love makes fools of us.
More Moliere Quotes
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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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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Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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