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“Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.”
Moliere
“Books and marriage go ill together.”
Moliere
“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”
Moliere
“A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.”
Moliere
“The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.”
Moliere
“Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.”
Moliere
“There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.”
Moliere
“All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.”
Moliere
“One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.”
Moliere
“I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.”
Moliere
“All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.”
Moliere
“Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.”
Moliere
“There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.”
Moliere
“Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.”
Moliere
“I live on good soup, not on fine words.”
Moliere
“If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.”
Moliere
“There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.”
Moliere
“Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.”
Moliere
“Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.”
Moliere
“The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.”
Moliere
“Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.”
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“It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.”
Moliere
“People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.”
Moliere
“Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.”
Moliere
“Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.”
Moliere
“Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.”
Moliere
“Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.”
Moliere
“It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.”
Moliere
“Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.”
Moliere
“True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.”
Moliere
