Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
MOLIEREThen 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.
More Moliere Quotes
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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