Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
MOLIEREWords and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
More Moliere Quotes
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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