One should eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIEREWe are easily duped by those we love.
More Moliere Quotes
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Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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In 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.
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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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But it is not reason that governs love.
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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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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