It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIEREEach day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
More Moliere Quotes
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The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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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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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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But it is not reason that governs love.
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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