Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
MOLIEREThere is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
More Moliere Quotes
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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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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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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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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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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There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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