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1. "I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue." ~ Moliere
2. "Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts." ~ Moliere
3. "A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool." ~ Moliere
4. "Grammar, which knows how to control even kings." ~ Moliere
5. "The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them." ~ Moliere
6. "People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous." ~ Moliere
7. "Reason is not what decides love." ~ Moliere
8. "He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure." ~ Moliere
9. "A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation." ~ Moliere
10. "The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit." ~ Moliere
11. "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
12. "One should eat to live, not live to eat." ~ Moliere
13. "One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others." ~ Moliere
14. "The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself." ~ Moliere
15. "It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right." ~ Moliere
16. "Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood." ~ Moliere
17. "Betrayed and wronged in everything,I'll flee this bitter world where vice is king,And seek some spot unpeopled and apartWhere I'll be free to have an honest heart." ~ Molière
18. "I have the defect of being more sincere than persons wish." ~ Molière
19. "Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait." ~ Molière
20. "Tous les hommes sont semblables par les paroles,ce n'est que les actions qui les découvrent différents" ~ Molière
21. "You are my peace, my solace, my salvation." ~ Molière
22. "One must eat to live and not live to eat." ~ Molière
23. "Le plus grand faible des hommes, c'est l'amour qu'ils ont de la vie." ~ Molière
24. "Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know." ~ Molière
25. "I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores." ~ Molière
26. "I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy;But then I wouldn't show it to everybody." ~ Molière
27. "I always think." ~ Molière
28. "Kebahagiaan yang tidak ada habis-habisnya akan membosankan.Itulah sebabnya kita mengalami pasang surut dalam hidup ini." ~ Molière
29. "Trissottani: ma lo scemo ignorante è uno scemo più puro. Clitandro: lo scemo intellettuale è uno scemo due volte." ~ Molière
30. "No, you shall be, my faith! Tartuffified." ~ Molière
31. "Birth means nothing where there is no virtue." ~ Molière
32. "La curiosité naît de la jalousie" ~ Molière
33. "Contre la médisance il n'est point de rempart." ~ Molière
34. "Mais, supposé, comme il est vrai, que les exercices de la piété souffrent des intervelles et que les hommes aient besoin de divertissement, je soutiens qu'on ne leur en peut trouver un qui soit plus innocent que la comédie." ~ Molière
35. "La musique est accoutumée à ne point faire ce qu'on veut." ~ Molière
36. "Je voudrais bien savoir pourquoi les gens qui se scandalisent si fort de la comédie de Molière ne disent mot de celle de Scaramouche.""La raison de cela, c'est que la comédie de Scaramouche joue le ciel et la religion, dont ces messieurs-là ne se soucient point; mais celle de Molière les joue eux-mêmes; c'est ce qu'ils ne peuvent souffrir." ~ Molière
37. "Ah! What a fine thing it is to know something!" ~ Molière
38. "Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature." ~ Molière
39. "To marry a fool is to be no fool." ~ Molière
40. "Malicious men may die, but malice never." ~ Molière
41. "Loin d'être aux lois d'un homme en esclave asservie,Mariez-vous, ma soeur, à la philosophie." ~ Molière
42. "Die Dinge haben nur den Wert, den man ihnen verleiht." ~ Molière
43. "Femeile frumoase au datoria de a ne scoate din minti." ~ Molière
44. "Il faut qu'il ait tué bien des gens pour s'être fait si riche." ~ Molière
45. "A quienes me preguntan la razón de mis viajes les contesto que sé bien de qué huyo pero ignoro lo que busco" ~ Molière
46. "That any gentleman should always keepIn stern control this writing itch we're seized with; That he must hold in check the great impatience We feel to give the world these idle pastimes; For, through this eagerness to show our works, 'Tis likely we shall cut a foolish figure." ~ Molière
47. "your humour, madam, Gives any and everyone too easy access Into your heart. You have too many lovers Besieging you—a thing I can't endure." ~ Molière
48. "Hé quoi ? vous ne ferez nulle distinctionEntre l'hypocrisie et la dévotion? Vous les voulez traiter d'un semblable langage,Et rendre même honneur au masque qu'au visage,Égaler l'artifice à la sincérité,Confondre l'apparence avec la vérité,Estimer le fantôme autant que la personne,Et la fausse monnaie à l'égal de la bonne ?Les hommes la plupart sont étrangement faits !Dans la juste nature on ne les voit jamais ;La raison a pour eux des bornes trop petites ;En chaque caractère ils passent ses limites ;Et la plus noble chose, ils la gâtent souventPour la vouloir outrer et pousser trop avant." ~ Molière
49. "It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable." ~ Molière
50. "Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue." ~ Molière
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