Deference and intimacy live far apart.
MOLIEREThere’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
More Moliere Quotes
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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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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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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I have the knack of easing scruples.
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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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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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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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