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The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there.


Moliere

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MOLIERE Long is the road from conception to completion.
MOLIERE Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.
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MOLIERE If you suppress grief too much it can well redouble
MOLIERE Love is often the fruit of marriage.
MOLIERE Assassination's the fastest way.
MOLIERE My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
MOLIERE Virtue in this world should be malleable.
MOLIERE I am addressing myself - I am addressing myself to my cap.
MOLIERE I assure you that a learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool
MOLIERE Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
MOLIERE Books and marriage go ill together.
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MOLIERE Things only have the value that we give them
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MOLIERE According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat
MOLIERE It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
MOLIERE To live without loving is not really to live
MOLIERE It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
MOLIERE There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
MOLIERE One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others
MOLIERE It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
MOLIERE There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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MOLIERE If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.
MOLIERE A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
MOLIERE One should eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE The envious will die, but envy never. [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine. [Fr., Le veritable Amphitryon Est ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE The republic of letters. [Fr., La republique des lettres.]
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JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE It is Hebrew to me. [Fr., C'est de l'hebreu pour moi.]
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JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE But it is not reason that governs love. [Fr., Mais la raison n'est pas ce qui regle l'amour.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE There are fagots and fagots. [Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw.
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE You have wished it so, you have wished it so, George Dandin, you have wished it so. [Fr., Vous l'...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Too great haste leads us to error. [Fr., Le trop de promptitude a l'erreur nous expose.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE One is easily fooled by that which one loves. [Fr., On est aisement dupe par ce qu'on aime.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding suc...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE What the devil was he doing in this galley? [Fr., Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE I recover my property wherever I find it. [Fr., Je reprends mon bien ou je le trouve.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
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JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly. [Fr., La parfaite ...
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