I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
MOLIEREEsteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
More Moliere Quotes
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Long is the road from conception to completion.
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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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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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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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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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Assassination’s the fastest way.
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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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