We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
MOLIEREHuman weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
More Moliere Quotes
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I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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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!
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