It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
MOLIEREAnyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
More Moliere Quotes
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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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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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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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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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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But it is not reason that governs love.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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