We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
MOLIEREI will maintain it before the whole world.
More Moliere Quotes
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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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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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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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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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There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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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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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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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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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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