In 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.
MOLIEREInnocence is not accustomed to blush.
More Moliere Quotes
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Music and dance are all you need.
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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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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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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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