Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
MOLIEREGrammar, which knows how to control even kings.
More Moliere Quotes
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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A woman always has her revenge ready.
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All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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Music and dance are all you need.
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The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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