Deference and intimacy live far apart.
MOLIERESome 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.
More Moliere Quotes
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.
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The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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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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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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We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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