Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
MOLIEREThere is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
More Moliere Quotes
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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