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.
MOLIERENo reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
More Moliere Quotes
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To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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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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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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I will maintain it before the whole world.
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All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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