One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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More Moliere Quotes
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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We die only once, and for such a long time.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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