It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
MOLIEREIt is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
MOLIEREAh! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
MOLIEREAh, there are no children nowadays.
MOLIEREThe 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.
MOLIERENearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
MOLIEREWriting is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
MOLIEREThe public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
MOLIEREA woman always has her revenge ready.
MOLIEREConsistency is only suitable for ridicule.
MOLIERENew-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
MOLIERENo one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
MOLIERETime has nothing to do with the matter.
MOLIEREAlthough I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
MOLIEREWe are all mortals, and each is for himself.
MOLIEREA husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
MOLIEREI believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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