We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
MOLIERECover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
More Moliere Quotes
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The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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A woman always has her revenge ready.
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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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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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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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I have the knack of easing scruples.
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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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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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