Moliere Quotes

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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• A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.

  

  Han Fei
  • Law
  • Virtue
  • Himself

• Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Born
  • Birth
  • Teen

• My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Birth

• The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • People
  • Glory
  • Chief

• A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Like
  • Gold
  • Virtue

• Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Truth
  • Freedom
  • Birth

• Clearly, we are not programmed at birth to behave a certain way based on our gender. Instead, we are trained throughout our lives to conform to our gender norms.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Way
  • Birth
  • Gender

• It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Birth
  • Lovely
  • Rainbow

• Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • History
  • Progress
  • Virtue

• As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Virtue
  • Concerned
  • Prefer

• Attachment to a baby is a long-term process, not a single, magical moment. The opportunity for bonding at birth may be compared to falling in love - staying in love takes longer and demands more work.

  

  T. Berry Brazelton
  • Work
  • Long
  • May

• In the great undertakings, there is glory, even in failure.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Great
  • Failure
  • Glory

• You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • Hand
  • Hands
  • Virtue

• One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Black
  • Morning
  • Birth

• Whatever we understand and enjoy in human products instantly becomes ours, wherever they might have their origin... Let me feel with unalloyed gladness that all the great glories of man are mine.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Great
  • Men
  • Might

• I am only strong enough for a life of partial virtue.

  

  Brian Andreas
  • Life
  • Virtue
  • Partial

• Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Glory
  • Destroy
  • Rainbow

• Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Glory
  • Washington
  • Reformation

• Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. If you are blamed you will not be discouraged. If they call you a saint you will not put yourself on a pedestal.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Real
  • Mother
  • Virtue

• I like stepping out of my comfort zone.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Like
  • Comfort
  • Comfort Zone

• There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, 'Fine,' but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, 'What a horror!'

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Woman
  • Girlfriend
  • Horror

• I don't mind people putting us down, because if everybody really liked us, it would be a bore. You've got to have people putting you down. It doesn't give any edge to it if everybody just falls flat on their face saying, "You're great." We enjoy some of the criticisms as well, they're quite funny; some of the clever criticisms, not the ones that don't know anything, but some of the clever ones are quite fun.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Enjoy
  • Criticism

• Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.

  

  Moliere
  • Virtue
  • Glory
  • Birth