Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
MOLIEREThere is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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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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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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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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We are easily duped by those we love.
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In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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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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I recover my property wherever I find it.
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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