Moliere Quotes
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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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There is no protection against slander.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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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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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves. Excess either way shocks, and every man truly wise ought to attend to this in his dress as well as language, never to be affected in anything and follow without being in too great haste the changes of fashion.
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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name.