There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
MOLIEREThe duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
More Moliere Quotes
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They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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