There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
MOLIEREPeople can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
More Moliere Quotes
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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I recover my property wherever I find it.
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