He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
MOLIERENothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
More Moliere Quotes
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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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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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Reason is not what decides love.
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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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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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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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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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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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