Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
MOLIEREBirth means nothing where there is no virtue.
MOLIEREThe 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.
MOLIEREUnreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
MOLIEREWithout knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
MOLIEREYou are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
MOLIEREI prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
MOLIERETo inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
MOLIEREHow easy love makes fools of us.
MOLIEREEsteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
MOLIEREAll is wholesome in the absence of excess.
MOLIEREI always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
MOLIERENew-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
MOLIEREThe true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
MOLIEREWhen there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
MOLIEREunbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
MOLIEREThe genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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