The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
MOLIEREI want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
More Moliere Quotes
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Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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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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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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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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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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I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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We are easily duped by those we love.
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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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