True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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