Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
MOLIEREMy heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
More Moliere Quotes
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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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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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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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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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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