One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
MOLIEREWe must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
More Moliere Quotes
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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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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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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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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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The smallest errors are always the best.
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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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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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