The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
MOLIEREMost people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
More Moliere Quotes
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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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 genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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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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