One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
MOLIEREIt is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
More Moliere Quotes
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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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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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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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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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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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