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According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat

Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.

Ah! devout though I may be, I am no less a man!

Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.

All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe

...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.

All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.

And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.

And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.

Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.

Assassination's the fastest way.

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

At least it's better to be married than to be dead.

Books and marriage go ill together.

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.

A woman always has her revenge ready.

Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart. - Molière, The Misanthrope

Birth is nothing where virtue is not

Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.

Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.

Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.

Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.

Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.

[Dom Juan] believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.

Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.

Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.

Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.

Gold makes the ugly beautiful.

Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

Grammar, which can govern even Kings.