Moliere on haste
Moliere242 quotes“Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.”
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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.
MoliereMoliere To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
MoliereMoliere You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
MoliereMoliere Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
MoliereMoliere Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
MoliereMoliere Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
MoliereMoliere It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
MoliereMoliere Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
MoliereMoliere Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
MoliereMoliere No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
MoliereMoliere Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
MoliereMoliere The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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More on haste
Too great haste leads us to error.
MoliereMoliere Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
MoliereMoliere Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.
Aaron HillAaron Hill Make haste cautiously.
AugustusAugustus Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
TacitusTacitus Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
TacitusTacitus Haste in every business brings failures.
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