He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
MOLIEREThe genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
More Moliere Quotes
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Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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We are easily duped by those we love.
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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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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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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We die only once, and for such a long time.
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