Books and marriage go ill together.
MOLIEREBooks and marriage go ill together.
MOLIEREWhen there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
MOLIEREI would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
MOLIEREAll is wholesome in the absence of excess.
MOLIEREIt is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
MOLIEREHuman weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
MOLIEREWithout knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
MOLIEREI prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
MOLIEREAll 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.
MOLIEREReason is not what decides love.
MOLIEREThere’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
MOLIEREDebts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
MOLIEREHypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
MOLIEREThe more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
MOLIEREMalicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
MOLIEREOne easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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