The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
MOLIEREWe 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.
More Moliere Quotes
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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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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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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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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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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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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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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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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.
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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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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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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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