It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIEREPerfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
More Moliere Quotes
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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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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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The envious will die, but envy never.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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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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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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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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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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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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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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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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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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