Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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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.
More Moliere Quotes
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Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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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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If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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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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All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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