Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
MOLIEREGrammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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.
MOLIERELove is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
MOLIEREThe absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
MOLIEREMalicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
MOLIEREThe less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
MOLIERESometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
MOLIERENew-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
MOLIERENothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
MOLIEREI prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
MOLIEREThe scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
MOLIEREPeople spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
MOLIERECover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
MOLIEREI assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
MOLIEREYou never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
MOLIEREGood Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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