When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
MOLIEREHe must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
More Moliere Quotes
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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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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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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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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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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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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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