Virtue is the first title of nobility.
MOLIEREGold makes the ugly beautiful.
More Moliere Quotes
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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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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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Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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