She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
MOLIEREOne should eat to live, not live to eat.
More Moliere Quotes
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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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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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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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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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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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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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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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It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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