Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
MOLIEREIf everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
More Moliere Quotes
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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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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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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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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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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