And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
MOLIEREAnd knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
More Moliere Quotes
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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