Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
MOLIEREBooks and marriage go ill together.
More Moliere Quotes
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I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Assassination’s the fastest way.
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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.
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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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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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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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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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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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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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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