No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
MOLIEREOne can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
More Moliere Quotes
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Too great haste leads us to error.
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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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Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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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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Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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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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New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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We are easily duped by those we love.
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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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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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