Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
MOLIEREI maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
More Moliere Quotes
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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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All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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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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Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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