Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
MOLIEREShe is laughing up her sleeve at you.
More Moliere Quotes
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To live without loving is not really to live.
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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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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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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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