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It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.


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It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLI It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE Of course heaven forbids certain pleasures, but one finds means of compromise.
MOLIERE True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
MOLIERE Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding suc...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.
MITCH ALBOM Well-intentioned but ill-informed actions usually compromise quality.
RAJEN JANI The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an a...
CHARLES HANDY The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an ad...
CHARLES HANDY Strength may be found in greater numbers, but true courage, which is from the heart, can only be fou...
MOHAMMED J A SHAH The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an a...
ANDREW CARNEGIE From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromis...
CHARLES SUMNER He [Moliere] pleases every one but can not please himself. [Fr., Il plait a tout le monde et ne sa...
NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX In some cases, some way, and sometimes you can tolerate or even if needed be considerate, but do not...
GLAD MUNAISECHE In some cases, some way, and sometimes you can tolerate or even if needed be considerate, but do not...
GLAD MUNAISECHE The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness,...
ANDREW CARNEGIE In a nation where the disbelievers sought Heaven from the idols, the Messenger of Allah [Prophet Muh...
MUHAMMAD TAHIR-UL-QADRI True peace cannot be found in a ‘place’. Rather, it is found in a Person who can be with you in ...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The thing about homebodies is that they can usually be found at home. I usually am, and I like to fe...
LAURIE COLWIN Englishmen have always loved Moliere.
LYTTON STRACHEY The orb shone bright, but darkness had come to Eden and Carys didn’t know is there was any light t...
JOELLE CHARBONNEAU Then they have the audacity to go shopping and pick out their own gifts. I want to know who the firs...
CHELSEA HANDLER We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.
ALLY CONDIE Sometimes I wonder how many others you're texting while you're texting me.
ABDUL'RAUF HASHMI When boys get mad its not so bad
When girls get mad world WW3 is about to start!
P.C. CAST NOTHING TO DO BUT ALWAYS BUSY
RIGAS There’s nothing worse than not being wanted
JENNIFER PROBST What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was t...
MITCH ALBOM In resolving a dispute, there will be need for some compromise
SOTONYE ANGA But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can d...
BARBARA WALTERS There can be compromise on a case by case basis but it cannot go too far.
BENOIT VERMANDER The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..
JOHN MILTON The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON Religious values can be warped or perverted but when people are true to its real value religious fai...
TONY BLAIR The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
JOHN MILTON I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariabl...
THOMAS MALTHUS Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.
JANE AUSTEN True love can not be found where it does not truly exist, nor can it be hidden where it does.
UNKNOWN One can only see a flowers true beauty not when its in full bloom but on how it came to be.
ELYMOR JAN B. HERNANDEZ The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us...
LILLIAN HELLMAN I know some people will be surprised to hear it, but I've found that my music, whether its blues...
RICK DERRINGER It's a compromise - two broken arms and a broken leg later, we've indicated publicly we can accept t...
GREG SCHNACKE But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower,--its bloom is shed.
JOHN BUNYAN There can be no compromise regarding corruption.
ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.
TORQUATO TASSO I can always do theater; I can do Ibsen, I can do Macbeth, I can do Chekhov, I can do Moliere, Othel...
VING RHAMES No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy.
LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, it punishments, is there for each of us f...
LILLIAN HELLMAN I can't be perfect for you, but you are perfect for me.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Accept everything, even if it's pain, even if it's sadness, because there's nothing absolute in this...
JUN MOCHIZUKI There weren't any villains though. The world was just complicated in various ways, and there weren't...
TATSUHIKO TAKIMOTO The internal combustion engine, one of the greatest technological advancements in history, has an un...
CUTHBERT SOUP Somewhere in the crowd was at least one potential friend who'd understand the fundamental value of g...
ALYSON NOEL ...as he discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Every choice has a consequence, every consequence another choice. Little agonies waiting to be embra...
MCM Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Ay me! sad hours seem long.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It was probably easier in the old days when the bad guys rode into town wearing black capes or whate...
JOAN BAUER Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM True love cannot be found where it truly doesn't exist, nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
ROY CROFT Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.
NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX For some, true happiness is found in objects. For the rest, it is found in the happiness of others.
RICHARD BELLZON In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, b...
GAEL GARCIA BERNAL Cultural synthesis is how a compromise between various opinions is worked out. But truth does not ch...
DAVID NOVAK The true value of a human being can be found in degrees to which he has attained liberation from the...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Had it pleas'd heaven to try me with affliction... I should have found in some place of my soul a dr...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any com...
MAHATMA GANDHI All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any com...
MOHANDAS GANDHI There's got to be some compromise. The stakes are just too high.
BRUCE FLAMM You can compromise without violating your principles, but it is nearly impossible to compromise when...
JAMIE DIMON There are some values that you should never compromise on to stay true to yourself; you should be br...
ROY T. BENNETT There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.
MUHAMMAD ALI Paradise Lost is sometimes Heaven found.
ARTHUR YORINKS The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN One can always compromise on strategy but never on principles.
JAIME CONTRERAS I don't see a win-win coming from this, but maybe we can create a fair solution that would be an acc...
BOB GROETKEN Compromise is a word found only in the vocabulary of those who have no will to fight.
JOSEMARíA ESCRIVá Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever.
DOROTHEA DIX There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own fo...
MICHAEL POLLAN True Peace can only ever be achieved when all are absent of its presence
CHARLIE JAMES If we reach some compromise, we continue our cooperation from where we are now. That is, the researc...
MANOUCHEHR MOTTAKI Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.
WILLIAM COWPER What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technol...
KEVIN MITNICK It could be dismissed by the judge, or it could be found true, but we can't comment on pending litig...
JEFF LUTHER It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, bu...
POTTER STEWART But I can please God
CRAIG GROESCHEL Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
JOHN STEINBECK She thirsted for love, but found only a mirage. Some hearts are a desert you can die wandering in.
JOHN MARK GREEN You can not help being ugly, but you could stay home.
PAUL MELVIN DETMER ...if you aren't, at any given time, scandalized by code you wrote five or even three years ago, you...
NICK BLACK If no one knows when a person is going to die, how can we say he died prematurely?
GEORGE CARLIN I hate watching people blow all operational security, and spew their guts like a teenage burglar, dr...
BRUCE STERLING Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what prec...
ANN BRASHARES ...but her eyes had had too much in them and his heart way too little for things to keep going.
J.R. WARD Sometimes two people will regard each other over a gulf too wide to ever be bridged, and know immedi...
ROGER EBERT She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd kn...
KRISTIN CASHORE I cranked the volume on the stereo and sang at the top of my lungs to an old Britney Spears song, my...
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MOLIERE If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.
MOLIERE A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
MOLIERE One should eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE The envious will die, but envy never. [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]
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JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE The republic of letters. [Fr., La republique des lettres.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws. [Fr...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE It is Hebrew to me. [Fr., C'est de l'hebreu pour moi.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE The smallest errors are always the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleur...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE But it is not reason that governs love. [Fr., Mais la raison n'est pas ce qui regle l'amour.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE There are fagots and fagots. [Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw.
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE You have wished it so, you have wished it so, George Dandin, you have wished it so. [Fr., Vous l'...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Too great haste leads us to error. [Fr., Le trop de promptitude a l'erreur nous expose.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE One is easily fooled by that which one loves. [Fr., On est aisement dupe par ce qu'on aime.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding suc...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE What the devil was he doing in this galley? [Fr., Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE I recover my property wherever I find it. [Fr., Je reprends mon bien ou je le trouve.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE The road is long fro the project to its completion. [Fr., Et le chemin est long du projet a la cho...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly. [Fr., La parfaite ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book. [Fr., Une louange en ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged. [Fr., Je ne te quitterai point que je ne t'aie ...
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