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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age! 
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives. 
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were. 
We die only once, and for such a long time. 
Two wives? That exceeds the custom. 
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house. 
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[Dom Juan] believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf. 
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one. 
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk. 
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man. 
There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations. 
But how a man like you, who looks so wise And wears a moustache of such splendid size,
Can be so foolish as to ...
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation. 
Ah! What a fine thing it is to know something! 
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want. 
Ah! devout though I may be, I am no less a man! 
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain. 
Flatterers are always to blame for the vices which prevail among mankind 
No, you shall be, my faith! Tartuffified. 
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them. 
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money. 
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation. 
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! 
The world will not alter for all your meddling. 
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world. 
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice. 
To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin. 
Perfect reason avoids all extremes. 
I find that it is the best trade of all; for, whether we manage well or ill, we are paid just the same. 
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing. 
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy;But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.
Things are only worth what you make them worth. 
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh. 
With a smile we should instruct our youth ... 
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests. 
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait. 
Why put yourself in charge of Heaven's cause?Does Heaven need our help to enforce its laws?
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says. 
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty. 
Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined 
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature. 
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence. 
We always speak well when we manage to be understood. 
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all. 
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose. 
People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous. 
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money. 
We must eat to live, and not live to eat. 
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him. 
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. 
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing. 
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment. 
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful. 
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death 
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it. 
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy. 
There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them! 
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble. 
We are all mortals, and each is for himself. 
I live on good soup, not on fine words. 
I have the defect of being more sincere than persons wish.
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood. 
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two. 
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters. 
Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood. 
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion. 
All right, then: I'm deluded and I'm blind. CLITANDRE 