Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
MOLIERESometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
More Moliere Quotes
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The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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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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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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I have the knack of easing scruples.
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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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 absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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I will maintain it before the whole world.
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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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