The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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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There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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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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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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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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The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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