He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
MOLIEREBirth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
More Moliere Quotes
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Music and dance are all you need.
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Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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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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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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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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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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