Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
MOLIEREConsistency is only suitable for ridicule.
More Moliere Quotes
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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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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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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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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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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