Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
MOLIEREThe more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
More Moliere Quotes
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There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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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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Music and dance are all you need.
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Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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