The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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More Moliere Quotes
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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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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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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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The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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To live without loving is not really to live.
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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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But it is not reason that governs love.
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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