Too great haste leads us to error.
MOLIEREVirtue is the first title of nobility.
More Moliere Quotes
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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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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We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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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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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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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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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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