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.
MOLIEREHeaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
More Moliere Quotes
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But it is not reason that governs love.
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Reason is not what decides love.
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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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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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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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