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.
MOLIEREAll which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
More Moliere Quotes
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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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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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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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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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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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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The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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We are easily duped by those we love.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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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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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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