We die only once, and for such a long time.
MOLIEREI would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
More Moliere Quotes
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There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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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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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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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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I will maintain it before the whole world.
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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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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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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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