Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
MOLIEREGrammar, which can govern even Kings.
MOLIEREI want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
MOLIEREIt is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
MOLIEREIn 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.
MOLIERELong is the road from conception to completion.
MOLIEREI hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
MOLIEREThere is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
MOLIERENo 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.
MOLIERESome of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
MOLIEREAnyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
MOLIEREHuman weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
MOLIEREYou have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
MOLIEREA lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
MOLIEREunbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
MOLIEREWhen you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
MOLIEREI recover my property wherever I find it.
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