I will maintain it before the whole world.
MOLIEREGood Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
More Moliere Quotes
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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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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All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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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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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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