With a smile we should instruct our youth.
MOLIEREAh! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
More Moliere Quotes
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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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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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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There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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