Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
MOLIEREWords and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
More Moliere Quotes
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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 genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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To 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.
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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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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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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