Moliere Quotes

One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.

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According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat

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If you suppress grief too much it can well redouble

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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue

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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

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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.

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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue

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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

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Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

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I prefer an accommodating vice to an obstinate virtue.

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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.

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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

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