All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
MOLIEREAnd knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
More Moliere Quotes
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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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