The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
MOLIEREWithout dance, a man can do nothing.
More Moliere Quotes
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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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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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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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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Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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But it is not reason that governs love.
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It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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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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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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