To live without loving is not really to live.
MOLIEREThere is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
More Moliere Quotes
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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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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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The envious will die, but envy never.
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Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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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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We are easily duped by those we love.
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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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