We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
MOLIEREThe absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
More Moliere Quotes
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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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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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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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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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There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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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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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Assassination’s the fastest way.
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Reason is not what decides love.
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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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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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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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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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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.
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