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.
MOLIEREYou think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
More Moliere Quotes
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It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Too great haste leads us to error.
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Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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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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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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But it is not reason that governs love.
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All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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