Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
MOLIEREReasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
More Moliere Quotes
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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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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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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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