Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
MOLIEREPerfect reason avoids all extremes.
More Moliere Quotes
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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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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To live without loving is not really to live.
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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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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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