Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
MOLIEREThey would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
More Moliere Quotes
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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I have the knack of easing scruples.
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She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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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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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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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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Music and dance are all you need.
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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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I 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.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Too great haste leads us to error.
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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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