Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
MOLIERELove is often the fruit of marriage.
More Moliere Quotes
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The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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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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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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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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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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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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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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