Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
MOLIEREI live on good soup, not on fine words.
More Moliere Quotes
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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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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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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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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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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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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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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Reason is not what decides love.
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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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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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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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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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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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All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Long is the road from conception to completion.
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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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