New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
MOLIERETo inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
More Moliere Quotes
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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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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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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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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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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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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