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.
MOLIEREPeople of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
More Moliere Quotes
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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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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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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