One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
MOLIEREI believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
More Moliere Quotes
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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There is no protection against slander.
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People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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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.
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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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