I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
MOLIEREGrammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
More Moliere Quotes
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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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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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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To live without loving is not really to live.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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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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Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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