The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
MOLIEREReasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
More Moliere Quotes
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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!
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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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.
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