The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
MOLIEREYou think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
More Moliere Quotes
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You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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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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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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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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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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