Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
MOLIEREGold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
More Moliere Quotes
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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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I recover my property wherever I find it.
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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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I have the knack of easing scruples.
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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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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Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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