Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
MOLIEREBooks and marriage go ill together.
More Moliere Quotes
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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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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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There is no protection against slander.
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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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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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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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Too great haste leads us to error.
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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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