I live on good soup, not on fine words.
MOLIEREThe less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
More Moliere Quotes
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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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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