We die only once, and for such a long time.
MOLIEREYou think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
More Moliere Quotes
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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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