Moliere Quotes

Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
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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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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Medicine Money Trade Yourself
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Blush Innocence One Liner
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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Esteem Meaning Preference
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Complete Concept Road
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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