It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
MOLIERENearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
More Moliere Quotes
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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We are easily duped by those we love.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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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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There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
MOLIERE