It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
MOLIEREEvery good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
More Moliere Quotes
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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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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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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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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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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