No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Assassination’s the fastest way.
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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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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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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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