A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
MOLIEREEveryone has a right to his own course of action.
More Moliere Quotes
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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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To live without loving is not really to live.
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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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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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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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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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