How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
MOLIEREA husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
More Moliere Quotes
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Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Too great haste leads us to error.
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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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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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Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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