Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
MOLIEREUnreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
More Moliere Quotes
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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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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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You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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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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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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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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