The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
MOLIERETobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
More Moliere Quotes
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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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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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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