The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
MOLIEREWithout dance, a man can do nothing.
More Moliere Quotes
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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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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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It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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