All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
MOLIEREThere is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
More Moliere Quotes
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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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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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The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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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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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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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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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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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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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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