When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
MOLIEREI want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
More Moliere Quotes
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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Assassination’s the fastest way.
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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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People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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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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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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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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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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