Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
MOLIEREI will maintain it before the whole world.
More Moliere Quotes
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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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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It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Too great haste leads us to error.
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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Reason is not what decides love.
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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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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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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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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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The envious will die, but envy never.
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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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