All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
MOLIEREEveryone has a right to his own course of action.
More Moliere Quotes
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Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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A woman always has her revenge ready.
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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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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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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 can govern even Kings.
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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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