The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
MOLIEREOne cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
More Moliere Quotes
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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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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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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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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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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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There is no protection against slander.
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Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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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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