Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
MOLIEREPerfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
More Moliere Quotes
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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Too great haste leads us to error.
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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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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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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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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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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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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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