We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
MOLIEREStay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
More Moliere Quotes
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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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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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You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Music and dance are all you need.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Reason is not what decides love.
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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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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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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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