Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
MOLIEREThe scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
More Moliere Quotes
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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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I will maintain it before the whole world.
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I have the knack of easing scruples.
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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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