People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
MOLIEREOh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
More Moliere Quotes
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Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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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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You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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I will maintain it before the whole world.
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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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