All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
MOLIEREThen worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
More Moliere Quotes
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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