To live without loving is not really to live.
MOLIERETo live without loving is not really to live.
MOLIEREThere’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
MOLIEREThe absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
MOLIEREMost people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
MOLIEREMy fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
MOLIEREI have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
MOLIEREGood Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
MOLIEREI maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
MOLIEREIt’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
MOLIEREHow strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
MOLIEREHe who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
MOLIEREAt least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
MOLIEREAlthough I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
MOLIEREThere is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
MOLIEREA wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
MOLIERENo matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
MOLIERE