Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
MOLIEREEsteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
More Moliere Quotes
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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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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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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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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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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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