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.
MOLIEREWithout knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
More Moliere Quotes
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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Too great haste leads us to error.
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It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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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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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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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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It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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