Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
MOLIEREIt is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
More Moliere Quotes
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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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A woman always has her revenge ready.
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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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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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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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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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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