The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
MOLIERERest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
More Moliere Quotes
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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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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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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