True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
MOLIEREAll the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
More Moliere Quotes
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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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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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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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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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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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.
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Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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