You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
MOLIEREWe always speak well when we manage to be understood.
More Moliere Quotes
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In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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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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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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