How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
MOLIEREDom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
More Moliere Quotes
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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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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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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