One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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