Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
MOLIEREAnd knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
More Moliere Quotes
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To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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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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We are easily duped by those we love.
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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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