Reason is not what decides love.
MOLIEREReason is not what decides love.
MOLIEREThere 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.
MOLIEREHow easy love makes fools of us.
MOLIERERest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
MOLIEREAll the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
MOLIEREunbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
MOLIEREDoubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
MOLIEREIt is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
MOLIEREIt’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
MOLIEREIn order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIEREIn society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
MOLIEREHow strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
MOLIERENearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
MOLIEREWe 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!
MOLIEREIt is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
MOLIERESolitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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