Deference and intimacy live far apart.
MOLIERESometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
More Moliere Quotes
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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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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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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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