All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
MOLIEREThere’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
More Moliere Quotes
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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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