The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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 smallest errors are always the best.
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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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We are easily duped by those we love.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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