Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
MOLIEREI assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
More Moliere Quotes
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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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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They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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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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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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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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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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