I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
MOLIEREI find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
MOLIEREThe ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
MOLIEREPeople can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
MOLIEREHypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
MOLIEREAll the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
MOLIEREPerfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
MOLIEREI always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
MOLIEREAll extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
MOLIEREThe secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
MOLIERENo 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.
MOLIEREHeaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
MOLIEREOne easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
MOLIEREFolk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
MOLIEREThe trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
MOLIEREAll the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
MOLIEREI might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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