Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
MOLIERETo create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
More Moliere Quotes
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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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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There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Too great haste leads us to error.
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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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