The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
MOLIEREUnreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
More Moliere Quotes
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All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Long is the road from conception to completion.
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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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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You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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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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