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.
MOLIEREToo great haste leads us to error.
More Moliere Quotes
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The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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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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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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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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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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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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You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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I will maintain it before the whole world.
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And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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Then 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.
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