Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
MOLIEREI have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
More Moliere Quotes
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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Reason is not what decides love.
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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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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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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