Moliere Quotes
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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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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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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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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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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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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You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?
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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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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 more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Books and marriage go ill together.