There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
MOLIERETo create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
More Moliere Quotes
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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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No 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.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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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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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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