And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
MOLIEREAge brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
More Moliere Quotes
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It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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