You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
MOLIERECultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
More Moliere Quotes
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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