Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
MOLIEREAll the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
More Moliere Quotes
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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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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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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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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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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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