Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
MOLIEREConsistency is only suitable for ridicule.
More Moliere Quotes
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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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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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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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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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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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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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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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We are easily duped by those we love.
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Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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