Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
MOLIEREThe 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?
More Moliere Quotes
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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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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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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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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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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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