Without dance, a man can do nothing.
MOLIEREAll 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.
More Moliere Quotes
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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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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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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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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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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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