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.
MOLIEREOne should eat to live, not live to eat.
More Moliere Quotes
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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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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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We die only once, and for such a long time.
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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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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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There is no protection against slander.
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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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