In 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.
MOLIERERest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
More Moliere Quotes
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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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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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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Too great haste leads us to error.
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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assassination’s the fastest way.
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The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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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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