Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
MOLIEREWhat a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
More Moliere Quotes
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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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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.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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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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I recover my property wherever I find it.
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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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