When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
MOLIEREEverything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
More Moliere Quotes
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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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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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Music and dance are all you need.
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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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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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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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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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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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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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