There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
MOLIEREYou have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
More Moliere Quotes
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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But it is not reason that governs love.
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Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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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.
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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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.
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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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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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Assassination’s the fastest way.
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You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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