Love is often the fruit of marriage.
MOLIEREAll the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
More Moliere Quotes
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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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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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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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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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