To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
MOLIEREThen worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
More Moliere Quotes
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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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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 are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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