A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
MOLIEREIt is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
More Moliere Quotes
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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I have the knack of easing scruples.
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I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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