Ah, there are no children nowadays.
MOLIEREBetrayed 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.
More Moliere Quotes
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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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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It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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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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Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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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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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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Too great haste leads us to error.
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