I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
MOLIERELove is often the fruit of marriage.
More Moliere Quotes
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The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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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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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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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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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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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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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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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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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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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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