I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
MOLIEREGrammar, which knows how to control even kings.
More Moliere Quotes
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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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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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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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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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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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.
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Music and dance are all you need.
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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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 world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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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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They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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