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.
MOLIEREThe ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
More Moliere Quotes
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The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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I have the knack of easing scruples.
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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 lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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