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.
MOLIERETo 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.
MOLIEREMalicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
MOLIEREI might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
MOLIEREToo great haste leads us to error.
MOLIEREWe are all mortals, and each is for himself.
MOLIEREThere are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
MOLIEREIn society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
MOLIEREI have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
MOLIEREBetrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
MOLIEREReasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
MOLIEREI prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
MOLIEREAh! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
MOLIEREDoubts 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.
MOLIEREThere is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
MOLIEREIt is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
MOLIEREAll which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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