The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
MOLIEREI always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
More Moliere Quotes
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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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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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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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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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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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