Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
MOLIEREAnd knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
More Moliere Quotes
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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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There is no protection against slander.
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It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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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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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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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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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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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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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Assassination’s the fastest way.
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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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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 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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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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