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.
MOLIEREA woman always has her revenge ready.
More Moliere Quotes
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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But it is not reason that governs love.
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There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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