Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
MOLIEREWriting is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
More Moliere Quotes
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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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