Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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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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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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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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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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