The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
MoliereMoliere Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
MoliereMoliere There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
MoliereMoliere But it is not reason that governs love.
MoliereMoliere We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
MoliereMoliere I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
MoliereMoliere Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
MoliereMoliere All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
MoliereMoliere Malicious men may die, but malice never.
MoliereMoliere Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
MoliereMoliere Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
MoliereMoliere Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
MoliereMoliere I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
MoliereMoliere The envious will die, but envy never.
MoliereMoliere All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
MoliereMoliere Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
LivyLivy The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
SaadiSaadi He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
BoethiusBoethius No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
BoethiusBoethius One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
BoethiusBoethius All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
BoethiusBoethius He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune’s breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
LivyLivy It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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