At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
MOLIEREThe ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
More Moliere Quotes
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Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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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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It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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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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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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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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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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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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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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