Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
MOLIEREThings are only worth what you make them worth.
More Moliere Quotes
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Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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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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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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