The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
MOLIEREI have the knack of easing scruples.
More Moliere Quotes
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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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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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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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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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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