In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
MOLIERERest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
More Moliere Quotes
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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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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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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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