Moliere Quotes
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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.
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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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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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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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe.
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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.