Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
MOLIEREWives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
MOLIEREI live on good soup, not on fine words.
MOLIEREThe 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.
MOLIEREShow some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
MOLIEREThe secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
MOLIEREA husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
MOLIEREEvery good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
MOLIEREThe less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
MOLIEREI will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
MOLIEREThere is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
MOLIEREIf you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
MOLIEREIt is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
MOLIEREOh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
MOLIEREOne ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
MOLIERENo matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
MOLIEREHe makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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