The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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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I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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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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Assassination’s the fastest way.
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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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A woman always has her revenge ready.
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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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