The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
MOLIEREGrammar, which knows how to control even kings.
More Moliere Quotes
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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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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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We are easily duped by those we love.
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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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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.
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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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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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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