Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
MOLIERECultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
More Moliere Quotes
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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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To live without loving is not really to live.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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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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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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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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