Moliere on oneself
Moliere242 quotes“One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.”
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Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
MoliereMoliere Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
MoliereMoliere Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
MoliereMoliere 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.
MoliereMoliere It is a long road from conception to completion.
MoliereMoliere That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
MoliereMoliere Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
MoliereMoliere I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
MoliereMoliere I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
MoliereMoliere The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
MoliereMoliere Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
MoliereMoliere Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
MoliereMoliere Without dance, a man can do nothing.
MoliereMoliere The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
MoliereMoliere Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
MoliereMoliere What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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