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.
MOLIEREIf you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
More Moliere Quotes
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It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Reason is not what decides love.
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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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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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There is no protection against slander.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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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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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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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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