A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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 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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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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A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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We are easily duped by those we love.
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There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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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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There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Reason is not what decides love.
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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