The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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