One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
MOLIEREThere are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
More Moliere Quotes
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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Reason is not what decides love.
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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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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