Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
MOLIEREThe public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
More Moliere Quotes
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The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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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!
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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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.
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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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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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