I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
MOLIEREThere is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
More Moliere Quotes
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Reason is not what decides love.
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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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It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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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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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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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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But it is not reason that governs love.
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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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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.
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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