Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
MOLIEREOh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
More Moliere Quotes
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No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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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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Too great haste leads us to error.
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No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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