The road is long fro the project to its completion.
MOLIEREDoubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
More Moliere Quotes
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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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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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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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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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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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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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