At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
MOLIEREReasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
More Moliere Quotes
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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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Assassination’s the fastest way.
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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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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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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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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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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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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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