Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
MOLIEREConsistency is only suitable for ridicule.
MOLIEREI have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
MOLIEREEach day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
MOLIEREIt may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
MOLIERETrue, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
MOLIEREThe absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
MOLIEREunbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
MOLIEREAll extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
MOLIEREThere is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
MOLIERETime has nothing to do with the matter.
MOLIEREToo great haste leads us to error.
MOLIEREThe road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
MOLIEREShe is laughing up her sleeve at you.
MOLIEREIt is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
MOLIEREIts as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
MOLIEREYou only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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