Moliere Quotes
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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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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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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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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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Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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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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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Assassination's the fastest way.
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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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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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Reason is not what decides love.
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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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The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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I recover my property wherever I find it.
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It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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That must be fine, for I don't understand a word.
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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.