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.
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.
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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.
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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.
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It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.
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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.
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As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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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.
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In the great undertakings, there is glory, even in failure.
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You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.
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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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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.
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I am only strong enough for a life of partial virtue.
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Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.
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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.
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The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses simply glut themselves like cattle.
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Atheism believes that truth for truth's sake is the highest ideal and that virtue is its own reward.
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I always have to prove that I can be better.
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Photography... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919)
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You know you're on the Senior Tour when your back goes out more than you do.
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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.
