There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
MOLIEREAll 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.
More Moliere Quotes
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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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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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In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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Long is the road from conception to completion.
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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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