There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
MOLIEREIn order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
More Moliere Quotes
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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There is no protection against slander.
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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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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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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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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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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 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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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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