All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
MOLIEREI will maintain it before the whole world.
More Moliere Quotes
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They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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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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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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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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Too great haste leads us to error.
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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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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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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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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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