He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
MOLIEREShow some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
More Moliere Quotes
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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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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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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