Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
MOLIEREWives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
More Moliere Quotes
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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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A woman always has her revenge ready.
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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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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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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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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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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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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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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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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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If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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