To 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.
MOLIEREAll the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
More Moliere Quotes
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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I will maintain it before the whole world.
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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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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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Reason is not what decides love.
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The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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