Moliere Quotes

All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

Moliere

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• India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Trade
  • India
  • Excess

• The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Terrible

• Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way allows us to regain our dignity, puts us in touch with the land, and makes us value human contact again.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Life
  • Value
  • Excess

• Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politician was in excess of what he deserved.

  

  H. Beam Piper
  • Texas
  • Killing
  • Excess

• Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • People
  • Believe
  • Evil

• Enjoy the necessities of life but eschew the excesses.

  

  Ian Gardner
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • Excess

• Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is the absence of the other.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Prayer

• Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the absence of presence, nothing more... the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Time
  • Game
  • Death

• The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.

  

  Aristotle
  • Driven
  • Necessity
  • Excess

• Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

  

  William Cowper
  • Mind
  • Wisdom
  • Absence

• Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

  

  William Cowper
  • inspirational
  • Healthy
  • Motivational

• Excess and deficiency are equally at fault.

  

  Confucius
  • Fault
  • Excess
  • Deficiency

• Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don't misunderstand me, both are needed- but an emphasis on fathering is necessary because of the enormity of its absence

  

  William P. Young
  • Father
  • Creation
  • Absence

• I try to stay clear of karaoke because it normally involves an excess amount of drinking.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Drinking
  • Amount
  • Excess

• It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.

  

  William H. Seward
  • Law
  • Slavery
  • Absence

• But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn't see, those tiniest of pieces, that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from being complete.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • World
  • Children
  • Relationship

• Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

  

  Herodotus
  • Adversity
  • Qualities
  • Absence

• Rather than an excess of firearms there's a shortage of faith and family that has a lot more to do with what happened out in Littleton. Let's face it, our public square is more hostile to religion than it is to Marilyn Manson.

  

  Kate O'Beirne
  • Religion
  • Faces
  • Excess

• My demon is hating to have to do a regular day job. Being up on stage really helps me forget I have a life like that - when I did have a life like that. I find complete contentment and happiness when I'm playing in front of an audience.

  

  Steven Barry "Lips" Kudlow Anvil
  • Hate
  • Helping
  • Forget

• People always say I'm a legend, but I'm not. Not until I've defended my Olympic titles. That's when I've decided I'll be a legend.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • People
  • Always
  • Legend

• ... women have their roots in the ground, and often those roots are starved and ravaged, yet there is not a human alive who cannot reach and touch, with... her fingers, the very top of God's rainbow.

  

  Og Mandino
  • God
  • Women
  • Rainbow

• Not every human culture places a particular value on virginity, and not every culture that does value it values it the same way or to the same degree. Indeed, a given culture's treatment of virginity can change over time.

  

  Hanne Blank
  • Value
  • Virginity
  • Human Culture

• I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Good
  • God
  • Night

• All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

  

  Moliere
  • Absence
  • Excess