Moliere
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.Collection: Curiosity
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.Collection: Love
Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense.Collection: Education
Virtue is the first title of nobility.Collection: Titles
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.Collection: Lonely
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.Collection: World
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.Collection: Long
Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwinedCollection: Thinking
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.Collection: Interesting
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.Collection: People
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.Collection: Trying
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.Collection: Salvation
That must be fine, for I don't understand a word.Collection: Writing
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.Collection: Eight
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.Collection: Love
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.Collection: Couple
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it's good, is so very good That the bad when it's bad can't be bad!Collection: Very Good
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.Collection: Few Friends
If Claret is the king of natural wines, Burgundy is the queen.Collection: Kings
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.Collection: Consistency
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.Collection: Book
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breatheCollection: People
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.Collection: Malice
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.Collection: Innocence
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.Collection: Sweet
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.Collection: Men
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.Collection: Hypocrite
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.Collection: Children
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.Collection: Funny
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.Collection: Kings
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.Collection: Writing
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!Collection: Long
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.Collection: Book
But it is not reason that governs love.Collection: Reason
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.Collection: Air
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.Collection: Diction
It is a long road from conception to completion.Collection: Long
The road is long fro the project to its completion.Collection: Long
Assassination's the fastest way.Collection: Way
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.Collection: Noble
I will maintain it before the whole world.Collection: World
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.Collection: Love
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.Collection: Father
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.Collection: Years
I recover my property wherever I find it.Collection: Plagiarism
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.Collection: Mean
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!Collection: Scholarship