True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
MOLIEREIf you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
More Moliere Quotes
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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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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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People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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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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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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I recover my property wherever I find it.
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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