I recover my property wherever I find it.
MOLIEREThe duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
More Moliere Quotes
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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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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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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 art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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