Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
MOLIEREIn 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.
More Moliere Quotes
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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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