When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
MOLIEREOne ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
More Moliere Quotes
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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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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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No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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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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It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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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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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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