Moliere Quotes - Page 5

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• Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.

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  Curiosity, Desire, Weakness

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• The smallest errors are always the best.
  [Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleures.]

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  Errors, Plus, Smallest

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• A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.

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  Marriage, Husband, Being The Best

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• No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.

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  Lonely, Way, Stubborn

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.39, Penguin

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• Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense.

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  Education, Teaching, Mouths

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• The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.

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  Long, Accomplishment, Projection

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• Music and dance are all you need.

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  Dancing, Needs, Music And Dance

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• 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.

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  Love, Heart, Other Worlds

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• Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined

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  Thinking, Sacred, Reason

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• When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.

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  People, Trying, Sides

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• It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.

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  Trying, Earth, World

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• I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

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  Literature, Want, Telling The Truth

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• Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

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  Kings, Grammar, Know How

  Les Femmes Savantes act 2, sc. 6 (1672)

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• If Claret is the king of natural wines, Burgundy is the queen.

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  Kings, Queens, Wine

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• You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.

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  Salvation, Solace

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• True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

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  Heaven, Literature, Compromise

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• When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.

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  Eight, Eating, Enough

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• The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.

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  Love, Long, May

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• Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.

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  Couple, Perfect, Sobriety

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• There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.

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  Malice

  "Tartuffe". Book by Moliere, Act I, sc. I, 1664.

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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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  Book, Reading, Writing

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• All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe

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  People, Drug, Able

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• Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.

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  Sweet, Money, War

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.80, Penguin

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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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  Very Good

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• There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

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  Courage, Literature, Wells

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