At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
MOLIEREI want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
More Moliere Quotes
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We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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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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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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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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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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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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I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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