Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
MOLIEREGreat is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
MOLIERETo inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
MOLIEREOne should eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIEREEven Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERETo marry a fool is to be no fool.
MOLIEREIn clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
MOLIEREThen 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.
MOLIEREWhen there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
MOLIEREThere is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
MOLIEREI prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
MOLIEREIt is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
MOLIEREWe are easily duped by those we love.
MOLIEREPerfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
MOLIEREI assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
MOLIEREIt may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
MOLIEREIt 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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