True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
MOLIEREEven Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
More Moliere Quotes
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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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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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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