Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
MOLIERETwo wives? That exceeds the custom.
More Moliere Quotes
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Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Long is the road from conception to completion.
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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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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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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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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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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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