Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
MOLIEREVirtue is the first title of nobility.
More Moliere Quotes
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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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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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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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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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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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