The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIEREIt is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
More Moliere Quotes
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering 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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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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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.
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Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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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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There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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