Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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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They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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