The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
MOLIEREThe road is long fro the project to its completion.
More Moliere Quotes
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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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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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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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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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