Molière - Heart Quotes

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To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.

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Géronte: It seems to me you are locating them wrongly: the heart is on the left and the liver is on the right.
Sganarelle: Yes, in the old days that was so, but we have changed all that, and we now practise medicine by a completely new method.

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Betrayed and wronged in everything, I'll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I'll be free to have an honest heart. - Molière, The Misanthrope

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If all hearts were frank, just, and honest, the major part of the virtues would be useless to us.

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If everyone were clothed with integrity,
If every heart were just, frank, kindly,
The other virtues would be well-nigh useless,
Since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience
The injustice of our fellows.

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The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?

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GERONTE: But there was one little thing that puzzled me: the heart and the liver... the side they're on. I think you got them back to front. The heart is on the left side, and the liver on the right.
SGANARELLE: Yes, that used to be the case. But we've changed all that, and currently in medicine we are following the modern method.

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