People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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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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All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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But it is not reason that governs love.
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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