Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
MOLIEREThey would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
More Moliere Quotes
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There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Long is the road from conception to completion.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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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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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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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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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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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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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Assassination’s the fastest way.
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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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