Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
MOLIEREI would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
More Moliere Quotes
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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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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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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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