That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
MOLIEREWe always speak well when we manage to be understood.
More Moliere Quotes
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The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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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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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 have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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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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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Reason is not what decides love.
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