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Moliere quotes: Everyone has a right to his own course of action. Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
Moliere quotes: There is no protection against slander. There is no protection against slander.
Moliere quotes: I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper. I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
Moliere quotes: Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal. Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
Moliere quotes: Here in the world, each human frailty Provides occasion for philosophy, And that is virtue's noblest exercise; Here in the world, each human frailty Provides occasion for philosophy, And that is virtue's noblest exercise;
Moliere quotes: I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged. I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
Moliere quotes: The great ambition of women is to inspire love. The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
Moliere quotes: He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure. He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
Moliere quotes: Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety. Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
Moliere quotes: In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable. In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
Moliere quotes: 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. 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.
Moliere quotes: Innocence is not accustomed to blush. Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
Moliere quotes: The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive. The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
Moliere quotes: It is a long road from conception to completion. It is a long road from conception to completion.
Moliere quotes: The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
Moliere quotes: 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! 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!
Moliere quotes: When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose. When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
Moliere quotes: Ah, there are no longer any children! Ah, there are no longer any children!
Moliere quotes: People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise. People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
Moliere quotes: Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed. Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
Moliere quotes: It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
Moliere quotes: Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them. Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
Moliere quotes: It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love. It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love.
Moliere quotes: Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer. Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.
Moliere quotes: Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death. Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
Moliere quotes: All is wholesome in the absence of excess. All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
Moliere quotes: But it is not reason that governs love. But it is not reason that governs love.
Moliere quotes: 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. 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.
Moliere quotes: They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism. They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
Moliere quotes: Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection. Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.
Moliere quotes: All the power is with the sex that wears the beard. All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
Moliere quotes: Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money. Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
Moliere quotes: Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion. Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
Moliere quotes: Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood. Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
Moliere quotes: There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose. There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
Moliere quotes: Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters. Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
Moliere quotes: All right, then: I'm deluded and I'm blind. CLITANDRE All right, then: I'm deluded and I'm blind. CLITANDRE
Moliere quotes: Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature. Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
Moliere quotes: Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined
Moliere quotes: Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty. Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
Moliere quotes: And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says. And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
Moliere quotes: Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two. Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
Moliere quotes: Why put yourself in charge of Heaven's cause?Does Heaven need our help to enforce its laws? Why put yourself in charge of Heaven's cause?
Does Heaven need our help to enforce its laws?
Moliere quotes: I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy;But then I wouldn't show it to everybody. I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy;
But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.
Moliere quotes: The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment. The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
Moliere quotes: I live on good soup, not on fine words. I live on good soup, not on fine words.
Moliere quotes: A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood. A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
Moliere quotes: We are all mortals, and each is for himself. We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
Moliere quotes: If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble. If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
Moliere quotes: 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! 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!
Moliere quotes: The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy. The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
Moliere quotes: One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it. One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
Moliere quotes: Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death
Moliere quotes: Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful. Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
Moliere quotes: The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence. The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
Moliere quotes: All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing. All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
Moliere quotes: A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
Moliere quotes: He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him. He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
Moliere quotes: We must eat to live, and not live to eat. We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
Moliere quotes: I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money. I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
Moliere quotes: People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous. People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
Moliere quotes: I have the defect of being more sincere than persons wish. I have the defect of being more
sincere than persons wish.
Moliere quotes: Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all. Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
Moliere quotes: We always speak well when we manage to be understood. We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
Moliere quotes: I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one. I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
Moliere quotes: Ah! devout though I may be, I am no less a man! Ah! devout though I may be, I am no less a man!
Moliere quotes: You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want. You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
Moliere quotes: Ah! What a fine thing it is to know something! Ah! What a fine thing it is to know something!
Moliere quotes: You are my peace, my solace, my salvation. You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
Moliere quotes: But how a man like you, who looks so wise And wears a moustache of such splendid size,Can be so foolish as to ... But how a man like you, who looks so wise
And wears a moustache of such splendid size,
Can be so foolish as to ...
Moliere quotes: There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations. There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
Moliere quotes: Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man. Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
Moliere quotes: No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk. No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
Moliere quotes: Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain. Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
Moliere quotes: [Dom Juan] believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf. [Dom Juan] believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
Moliere quotes: We are easily duped by those we love. We are easily duped by those we love.
Moliere quotes: A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house. A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
Moliere quotes: Two wives? That exceeds the custom. Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
Moliere quotes: We die only once, and for such a long time. We die only once, and for such a long time.
Moliere quotes: Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were. Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
Moliere quotes: Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives. Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
Moliere quotes: Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age! Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
Moliere quotes: There is no rampart that will hold out against malice. There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
Moliere quotes: I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests. I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
Moliere quotes: With a smile we should instruct our youth ... With a smile we should instruct our youth ...
Moliere quotes: It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh. It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
Moliere quotes: Things are only worth what you make them worth. Things are only worth what you make them worth.
Moliere quotes: Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing. Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
Moliere quotes: I find that it is the best trade of all; for, whether we manage well or ill, we are paid just the same. I find that it is the best trade of all; for, whether we manage well or ill, we are paid just the same.
Moliere quotes: Perfect reason avoids all extremes. Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
Moliere quotes: To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin. To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
Moliere quotes: Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait. Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
Moliere quotes: It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world. It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
Moliere quotes: The world will not alter for all your meddling. The world will not alter for all your meddling.
Moliere quotes: 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! 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!
Moliere quotes: And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation. And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
Moliere quotes: He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money. He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
Moliere quotes: The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them. The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
Moliere quotes: No, you shall be, my faith! Tartuffified. No, you shall be, my faith! Tartuffified.
Moliere quotes: Flatterers are always to blame for the vices which prevail among mankind Flatterers are always to blame for the vices which prevail among mankind

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