I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
MOLIERENo matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
More Moliere Quotes
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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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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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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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