Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
MOLIEREYou are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
More Moliere Quotes
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The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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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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It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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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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New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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