Moliere Quotes
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It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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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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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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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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The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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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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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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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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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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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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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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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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All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe.
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.