In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
MOLIERETo find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
More Moliere Quotes
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The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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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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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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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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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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