The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
MOLIEREOne ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
More Moliere Quotes
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There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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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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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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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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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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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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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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