When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
MOLIEREHow easy love makes fools of us.
More Moliere Quotes
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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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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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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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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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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