Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
MOLIEREAll 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.
More Moliere Quotes
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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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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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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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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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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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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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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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