Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
MOLIEREThe great ambition of women is to inspire love.
More Moliere Quotes
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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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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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We are easily duped by those we love.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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