The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
MOLIEREHe must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
More Moliere Quotes
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Too great haste leads us to error.
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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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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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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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We are easily duped by those we love.
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