I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
MOLIEREThe trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
More Moliere Quotes
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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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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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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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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