If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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