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Time has nothing to do with the matter.
Moliere -
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
Moliere
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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
Moliere -
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
Moliere -
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
Moliere -
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
Moliere -
The smallest errors are always the best.
Moliere -
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
Moliere
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
Moliere -
We are easily duped by those we love.
Moliere -
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
Moliere -
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
Moliere -
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
Moliere -
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.
Moliere
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe.
Moliere -
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
Moliere -
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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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.
Moliere -
Ah, there are no longer any children!
Moliere
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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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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
Moliere -
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.
Moliere