Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
MOLIERETo live without loving is not really to live.
More Moliere Quotes
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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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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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Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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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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Reason is not what decides love.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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