And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
MOLIEREYou are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
More Moliere Quotes
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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