When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
MOLIEREYou are a fool in four letters, my son.
More Moliere Quotes
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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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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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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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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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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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I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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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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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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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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The smallest errors are always the best.
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