The road is long fro the project to its completion.
MOLIEREOh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
More Moliere Quotes
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The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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But it is not reason that governs love.
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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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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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