And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
MOLIEREMen often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
More Moliere Quotes
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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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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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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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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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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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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There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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