unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
MOLIEREA woman always has her revenge ready.
More Moliere Quotes
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Reason is not what decides love.
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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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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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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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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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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