More from Moliere
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
MoliereMoliere Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
MoliereMoliere People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
MoliereMoliere The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
MoliereMoliere Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
MoliereMoliere Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MoliereMoliere A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
MoliereMoliere New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
MoliereMoliere All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
MoliereMoliere Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
MoliereMoliere 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.
MoliereMoliere Ah, there are no longer any children!
MoliereMoliere When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
MoliereMoliere Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
MoliereMoliere If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
MoliereMoliere He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Original quotes
From our community writers
They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on intimacy
Sex and intimacy are not the same: You can have sex all your life and never be intimate with a person. There has to be empathy in the relationship. You have to enjoy seeing through their eyes. When you’re with them, you’re there and not thinking about what you’re gonna do tomorrow.
Jane FondaJane Fonda Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.
Adrienne RichAdrienne Rich The intimacy. The deepest level of love.
Adriana TrigianiAdriana Trigiani True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.
Henry CloudHenry Cloud He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.
Charles Caleb ColtonCharles Caleb Colton The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.
AberjhaniAberjhani They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
Jean GenetJean Genet For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard