Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
MOLIEREConsistency is only suitable for ridicule.
More Moliere Quotes
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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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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New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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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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To live without loving is not really to live.
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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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