unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
MOLIEREThey would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
More Moliere Quotes
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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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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 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 duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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There is no protection against slander.
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