He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
MOLIEREShow some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
More Moliere Quotes
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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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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The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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