Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
MOLIEREEsteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
More Moliere Quotes
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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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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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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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I will maintain it before the whole world.
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The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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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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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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