Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
MOLIEREHow easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
More Moliere Quotes
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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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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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I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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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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There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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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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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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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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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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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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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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We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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