Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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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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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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