Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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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All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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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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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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