Moliere Quotes
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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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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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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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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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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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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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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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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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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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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All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe.
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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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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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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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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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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.