Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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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Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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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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It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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