Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIEREWith a smile we should instruct our youth.
More Moliere Quotes
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Reason is not what decides love.
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Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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