All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
MOLIEREGrammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
More Moliere Quotes
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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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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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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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In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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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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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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