I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
MOLIEREYou think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
More Moliere Quotes
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Reason is not what decides love.
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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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There is nothing so necessary for men as 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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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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We die only once, and for such a long time.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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