The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
MOLIERELove is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
More Moliere Quotes
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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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 envious will die, but envy never.
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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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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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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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