It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
MOLIEREDoubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
More Moliere Quotes
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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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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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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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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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Assassination’s the fastest way.
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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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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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