It is a long road from conception to completion.
MOLIEREThe envious will die, but envy never.
More Moliere Quotes
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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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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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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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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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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Music and dance are all you need.
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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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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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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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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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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