More from Moliere
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
MoliereMoliere The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
MoliereMoliere Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
MoliereMoliere What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
MoliereMoliere I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
MoliereMoliere There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
MoliereMoliere You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
MoliereMoliere Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
MoliereMoliere I live on good soup, not on fine words.
MoliereMoliere To live without loving is not really to live.
MoliereMoliere How easy love makes fools of us.
MoliereMoliere There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
MoliereMoliere And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
MoliereMoliere It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
MoliereMoliere Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
MoliereMoliere Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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You were fully clothed in lies, I was naked in truth. Still, when morning came It was I who survived the cold.
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He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring.
Benjamin Harvey HillBenjamin Harvey Hill It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.
Bette GreeneBette Greene Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
Marquis de SadeMarquis de Sade Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
Marquis de SadeMarquis de Sade Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
Veronica RothVeronica Roth Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
Marquis de SadeMarquis de Sade The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men’s eyes.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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