More from Moliere
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
MoliereMoliere But it is not reason that governs love.
MoliereMoliere We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
MoliereMoliere I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
MoliereMoliere Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
MoliereMoliere All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
MoliereMoliere Malicious men may die, but malice never.
MoliereMoliere Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
MoliereMoliere Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
MoliereMoliere 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.
MoliereMoliere I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
MoliereMoliere The envious will die, but envy never.
MoliereMoliere All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
MoliereMoliere Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
MoliereMoliere In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
MoliereMoliere We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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