Books and marriage go ill together.
MOLIEREHe who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
More Moliere Quotes
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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.
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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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We die only once, and for such a long time.
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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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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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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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But it is not reason that governs love.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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