The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
MOLIEREWithout dance, a man can do nothing.
More Moliere Quotes
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The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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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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They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Music and dance are all you need.
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The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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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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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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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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