Moliere Quotes
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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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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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As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.
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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Assassination's the fastest way.
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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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They zealots would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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I will maintain it before the whole world.
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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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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.