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?
MOLIERESharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
More Moliere Quotes
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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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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 impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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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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Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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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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Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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