The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
MOLIEREWe 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!
More Moliere Quotes
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Long is the road from conception to completion.
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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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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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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