Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
MOLIEREWe are easily duped by those we love.
More Moliere Quotes
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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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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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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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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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At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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