All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
MOLIEREFolk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
More Moliere Quotes
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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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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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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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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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Doubts 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.
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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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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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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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To live without loving is not really to live.
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