There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
MOLIEREHow strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
More Moliere Quotes
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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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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The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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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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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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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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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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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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