Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
MOLIERETwo wives? That exceeds the custom.
More Moliere Quotes
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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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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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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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