If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
MOLIEREWhen you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
More Moliere Quotes
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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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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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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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And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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The 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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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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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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