The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
MOLIEREConsistency is only suitable for ridicule.
More Moliere Quotes
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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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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It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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