No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
MOLIERESolitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
More Moliere Quotes
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A woman always has her revenge ready.
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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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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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I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Too great haste leads us to error.
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There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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