Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
MOLIEREIt is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
More Moliere Quotes
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All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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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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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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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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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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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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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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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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We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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