People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
MOLIERENothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
More Moliere Quotes
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To live without loving is not really to live.
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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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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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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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Books and marriage go ill together.
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There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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