We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
MOLIEREGrammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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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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How easy love makes fools of us.
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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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We are easily duped by those we love.
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