Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
MOLIEREFrenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
More Moliere Quotes
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Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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To live without loving is not really to live.
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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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 prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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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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