Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
MOLIEREBirth is nothing where virtue is not.
More Moliere Quotes
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We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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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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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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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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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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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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To live without loving is not really to live.
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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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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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Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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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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Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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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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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the 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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