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.
MOLIEREAll right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
More Moliere Quotes
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We are easily duped by those we love.
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Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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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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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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I will maintain it before the whole world.
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