When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
MOLIEREPerfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
More Moliere Quotes
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Assassination’s the fastest way.
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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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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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