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.
MOLIEREGreat is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
More Moliere Quotes
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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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I recover my property wherever I find it.
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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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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 feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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