Long is the road from conception to completion.
MOLIERELong is the road from conception to completion.
MOLIEREI assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
MOLIERELove is often the fruit of marriage.
MOLIERECover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
MOLIEREGreat is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
MOLIERENo reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
MOLIEREWe should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
MOLIEREConsistency is only suitable for ridicule.
MOLIEREBirth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
MOLIEREI want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
MOLIEREEverything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
MOLIEREHe who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
MOLIEREWhat a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
MOLIEREIt is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
MOLIEREMen often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
MOLIEREThe most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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