Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
MOLIEREAh! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
MOLIEREAll 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.
MOLIEREHow strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
MOLIEREIt is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
MOLIERENo matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
MOLIEREIt is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
MOLIEREFolk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
MOLIEREI want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
MOLIEREAll the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
MOLIEREAt least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
MOLIEREThe 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?
MOLIEREA good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
MOLIEREWe are all mortals, and each is for himself.
MOLIEREMy fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
MOLIEREYou are a fool in four letters, my son.
MOLIEREI will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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