The envious will die, but envy never.
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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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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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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Too great haste leads us to error.
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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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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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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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