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.
MOLIEREConsistency is only suitable for ridicule.
More Moliere Quotes
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The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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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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We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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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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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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