Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
MOLIEREI recover my property wherever I find it.
More Moliere Quotes
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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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New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Too great haste leads us to error.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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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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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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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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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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