Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
MOLIEREThere’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
More Moliere Quotes
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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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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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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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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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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I will maintain it before the whole world.
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I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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But it is not reason that governs love.
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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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