Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
MOLIEREThe road is long fro the project to its completion.
More Moliere Quotes
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The 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.
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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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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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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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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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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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There is no protection against slander.
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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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You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Music and dance are all you need.
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