Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
MOLIEREConsistency is only suitable for ridicule.
MOLIEREWords and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
MOLIEREMalicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
MOLIEREPerfect reason avoids all extremes.
MOLIEREGrammar, which can govern even Kings.
MOLIEREOh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
MOLIEREPeople don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
MOLIEREI would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
MOLIEREI maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
MOLIEREMy heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
MOLIEREIt may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
MOLIEREWhat a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
MOLIEREI assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
MOLIEREI feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
MOLIERENo one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
MOLIERENearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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