The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
MOLIEREThe impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
More Moliere Quotes
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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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Music and dance are all you need.
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All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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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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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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