Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
MOLIEREThere is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
More Moliere Quotes
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Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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