What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
MOLIEREThen worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
More Moliere Quotes
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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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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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Reason is not what decides love.
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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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