Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
MOLIEREA woman always has her revenge ready.
More Moliere Quotes
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No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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