I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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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But it is not reason that governs love.
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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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