We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
MOLIERETo marry a fool is to be no fool.
More Moliere Quotes
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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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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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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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.
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To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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