I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
MOLIERESome of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
More Moliere Quotes
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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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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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The envious will die, but envy never.
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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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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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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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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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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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