Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIEREMen often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
More Moliere Quotes
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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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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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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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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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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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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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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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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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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Too great haste leads us to error.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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