All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
MOLIEREYou have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
More Moliere Quotes
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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I have the knack of easing scruples.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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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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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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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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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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