Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
MOLIEREAh, there are no children nowadays.
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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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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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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How easy love makes fools of us.
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There is no protection against slander.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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