The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
MOLIEREUnreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
More Moliere Quotes
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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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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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At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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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 folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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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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Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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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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People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Assassination’s the fastest way.
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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