All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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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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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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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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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All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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To live without loving is not really to live.
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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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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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