In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERETo live without loving is not really to live.
More Moliere Quotes
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You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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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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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Reason is not what decides love.
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You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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