Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
MOLIEREunbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
More Moliere Quotes
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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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In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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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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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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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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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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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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It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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