Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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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Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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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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Books and marriage go ill together.
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Too great haste leads us to error.
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To live without loving is not really to live.
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Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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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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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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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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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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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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A woman always has her revenge ready.
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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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