unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
MOLIEREThere’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
More Moliere Quotes
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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Assassination’s the fastest way.
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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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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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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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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