Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
MOLIERERest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
More Moliere Quotes
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Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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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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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Reason is not what decides love.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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