People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
MOLIEREI might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
More Moliere Quotes
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Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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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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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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