Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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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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All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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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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Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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