Deference and intimacy live far apart.
MOLIEREHe must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
More Moliere Quotes
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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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No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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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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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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