The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
MOLIERETo marry a fool is to be no fool.
More Moliere Quotes
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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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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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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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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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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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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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To live without loving is not really to live.
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