It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
MOLIEREPerfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
More Moliere Quotes
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No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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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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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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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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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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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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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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