Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
MOLIEREWhat a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
More Moliere Quotes
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
MOLIEREThere’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIEREEven Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
MOLIEREMan, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
MOLIEREIt may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
MOLIEREWhen there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
MOLIEREThen worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
MOLIEREThere’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
MOLIEREI might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
MOLIEREAll the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
MOLIEREThe ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
MOLIEREIf you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
MOLIEREIt is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
MOLIERESometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
MOLIEREI hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
MOLIEREWe are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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