I will maintain it before the whole world.
MOLIEREThe trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
More Moliere Quotes
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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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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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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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But it is not reason that governs love.
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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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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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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Assassination’s the fastest way.
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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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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.
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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