Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
MOLIEREWithout knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
More Moliere Quotes
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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To live without loving is not really to live.
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The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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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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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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