Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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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.
More Moliere Quotes
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Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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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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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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There is no protection against slander.
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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