Moliere Quotes
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Music and dance are all you need.
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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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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 general public is easy. You don't have to answer to anyone; and as long as you follow the rules of your profession, you needn't worry about the consequences. But the problem with the powerful and rich is that when they are sick, they really want their doctors to cure them.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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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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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it's good, is so very good That the bad when it's bad can't be bad!
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Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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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.
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.