How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
MOLIEREOne can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
More Moliere Quotes
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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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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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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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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