Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
MOLIERELong is the road from conception to completion.
More Moliere Quotes
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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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I recover my property wherever I find it.
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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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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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You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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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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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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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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Reason is not what decides love.
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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