I will maintain it before the whole world.
MOLIEREIt’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
More Moliere Quotes
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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But it is not reason that governs love.
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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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 nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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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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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Reason is not what decides love.
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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