Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
MOLIEREIt is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
More Moliere Quotes
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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Reason is not what decides love.
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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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At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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There is no protection against slander.
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I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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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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