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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.


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MOLIERE Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
MOLIERE I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
MOLIERE The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
MOLIERE Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
MOLIERE I have the knack of easing scruples.
MOLIERE The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
MOLIERE The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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MOLIERE People can be induced to swallow anything, provide it is sufficiently seasoned with praise
MOLIERE Pure reason avoids extremes, and requires one to be wise in moderation.
MOLIERE People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
MOLIERE True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
MOLIERE The real Amphitryon is the Amphitryon who gives dinners.
MOLIERE Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
MOLIERE I will maintain it before the whole world.
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MOLIERE There are fagots and fagots.
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MOLIERE The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there.
MOLIERE Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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MOLIERE Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain
MOLIERE I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others
MOLIERE How easy love makes fools of us.
MOLIERE He's a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue.
MOLIERE Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
MOLIERE Long is the road from conception to completion.
MOLIERE Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.
MOLIERE It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE If you suppress grief too much it can well redouble
MOLIERE Love is often the fruit of marriage.
MOLIERE Assassination's the fastest way.
MOLIERE My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
MOLIERE Virtue in this world should be malleable.
MOLIERE I am addressing myself - I am addressing myself to my cap.
MOLIERE I assure you that a learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool
MOLIERE Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
MOLIERE Books and marriage go ill together.
MOLIERE Of course heaven forbids certain pleasures, but one finds means of compromise.
MOLIERE Man is, I confess, a wicked creature.
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MOLIERE Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
MOLIERE He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
MOLIERE We die only once, and for such a long time.
MOLIERE Things only have the value that we give them
MOLIERE Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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MOLIERE According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat
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MOLIERE To live without loving is not really to live
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MOLIERE There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
MOLIERE One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others
MOLIERE It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
MOLIERE There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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MOLIERE If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.
MOLIERE A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
MOLIERE One should eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE The envious will die, but envy never. [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]
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