People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
MOLIEREHow easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
More Moliere Quotes
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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