People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
MOLIEREThe secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
More Moliere Quotes
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Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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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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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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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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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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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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