No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
MOLIEREMalicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
More Moliere Quotes
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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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To live without loving is not really to live.
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Then 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.
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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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No 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.
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All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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