Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
MOLIEREPeople don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
More Moliere Quotes
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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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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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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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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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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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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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Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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