Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
MOLIEREThe public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
More Moliere Quotes
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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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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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