One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
MOLIEREThe secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
More Moliere Quotes
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The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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All 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.
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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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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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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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