Deference and intimacy live far apart.
MOLIEREMen often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
More Moliere Quotes
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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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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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It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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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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