Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
MOLIEREI prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
More Moliere Quotes
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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