When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
MOLIERENo 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.
More Moliere Quotes
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I have the knack of easing scruples.
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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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We are easily duped by those we love.
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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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