I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
MOLIEREA wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
More Moliere Quotes
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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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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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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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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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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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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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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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