The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
MOLIEREOne should eat to live, not live to eat.
More Moliere Quotes
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I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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