With a smile we should instruct our youth.
MOLIEREThere is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
More Moliere Quotes
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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I have the knack of easing scruples.
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We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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