The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
MOLIEREHeaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
More Moliere Quotes
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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A woman always has her revenge ready.
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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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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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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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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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