Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
MOLIEREThe road is long fro the project to its completion.
More Moliere Quotes
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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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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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As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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