Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
MOLIEREThe envious will die, but envy never.
More Moliere Quotes
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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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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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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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I recover my property wherever I find it.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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