The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
MOLIEREThere is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
More Moliere Quotes
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Long is the road from conception to completion.
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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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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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