He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
MOLIEREWe should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
More Moliere Quotes
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To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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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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The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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