The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
MOLIEREA husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
More Moliere Quotes
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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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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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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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We are easily duped by those we love.
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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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