It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
MOLIEREIsn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
More Moliere Quotes
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You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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