One should eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIEREI assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
More Moliere Quotes
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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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Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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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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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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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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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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