Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
MOLIEREI prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
More Moliere Quotes
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I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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We are easily duped by those we love.
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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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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People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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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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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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