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!
MOLIEREWe die only once, and for such a long time.
More Moliere Quotes
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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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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Music and dance are all you need.
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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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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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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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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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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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