Deference and intimacy live far apart.
MOLIEREEach day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
More Moliere Quotes
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It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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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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No 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.
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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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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 envious will die, but envy never.
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I recover my property wherever I find it.
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We die only once, and for such a long time.
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