Reason is not what decides love.
Moliere
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
Moliere
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.
Moliere
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
Moliere
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Moliere
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
Moliere
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
Moliere
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
Moliere
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
Moliere
There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.
Moliere
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
Moliere
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
Moliere
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
Moliere
We die only once, and for such a long time.
Moliere
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
Moliere
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