Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
MOLIEREFrenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
More Moliere Quotes
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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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