Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
MOLIEREA laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
More Moliere Quotes
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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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