Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
MOLIEREThere is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
More Moliere Quotes
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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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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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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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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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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I have the knack of easing scruples.
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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
MOLIERE