Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
MOLIERENo matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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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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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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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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