Too great haste leads us to error.
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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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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I will maintain it before the whole world.
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Assassination’s the fastest way.
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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