Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
MOLIERETobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
More Moliere Quotes
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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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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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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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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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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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I recover my property wherever I find it.
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I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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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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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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