The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
MOLIEREThere is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
More Moliere Quotes
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Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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