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!
MOLIEREAlthough I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
More Moliere Quotes
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The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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