One should eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIEREI always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
More Moliere Quotes
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Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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To live without loving is not really to live.
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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