One should eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIEREGood Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
More Moliere Quotes
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People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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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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To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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A woman always has her revenge ready.
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