It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
MOLIERETwo wives? That exceeds the custom.
More Moliere Quotes
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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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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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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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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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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We die only once, and for such a long time.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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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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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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