The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
MOLIEREYou only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
More Moliere Quotes
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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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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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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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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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No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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We are easily duped by those we love.
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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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It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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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 envious will die, but envy never.
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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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