I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
MOLIEREDon’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
More Moliere Quotes
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Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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I recover my property wherever I find it.
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The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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