The road is long fro the project to its completion.
MOLIEREIt is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
More Moliere Quotes
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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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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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I have the knack of easing scruples.
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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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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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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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