We die only once, and for such a long time.
MOLIEREPerfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
More Moliere Quotes
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It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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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 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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The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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I recover my property wherever I find it.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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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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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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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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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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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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All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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