Virtue is the first title of nobility.
MOLIEREA laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
More Moliere Quotes
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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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But it is not reason that governs love.
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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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I recover my property wherever I find it.
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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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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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Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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