Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
MOLIEREIn 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.
More Moliere Quotes
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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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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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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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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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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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.
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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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