Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
MOLIEREMan’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
More Moliere Quotes
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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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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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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I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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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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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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