A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
MOLIEREDeference and intimacy live far apart.
More Moliere Quotes
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It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Music and dance are all you need.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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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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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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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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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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We are easily duped by those we love.
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