If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
MOLIEREIt 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.
More Moliere Quotes
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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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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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