He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
MOLIEREA good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
More Moliere Quotes
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Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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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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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 world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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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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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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There is no protection against slander.
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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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