If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
MOLIEREYou never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
More Moliere Quotes
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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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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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I will maintain it before the whole world.
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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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The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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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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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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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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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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