The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
MOLIEREIt’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
More Moliere Quotes
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Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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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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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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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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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Reason is not what decides love.
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You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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But it is not reason that governs love.
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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