There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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But it is not reason that governs love.
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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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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 art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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