The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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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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Reason is not what decides love.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Too great haste leads us to error.
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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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