The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
MOLIEREIn order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
More Moliere Quotes
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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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We die only once, and for such a long time.
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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Long is the road from conception to completion.
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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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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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