Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
MOLIEREWithout knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
More Moliere Quotes
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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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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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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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We die only once, and for such a long time.
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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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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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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