To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
MOLIEREBirth is nothing where virtue is not.
More Moliere Quotes
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People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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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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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Music and dance are all you need.
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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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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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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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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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The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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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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