There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
MOLIEREA lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
More Moliere Quotes
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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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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To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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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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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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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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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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We are easily duped by those we love.
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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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