Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
MOLIERELong is the road from conception to completion.
More Moliere Quotes
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To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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But it is not reason that governs love.
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I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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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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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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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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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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There is no protection against slander.
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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