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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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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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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Too great haste leads us to error.
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Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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We are easily duped by those we love.
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Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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