Virtue is the first title of nobility.
MOLIEREAll the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
More Moliere Quotes
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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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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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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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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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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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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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We are easily duped by those we love.
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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