Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
MOLIERESolitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
More Moliere Quotes
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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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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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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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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