It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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 should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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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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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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