The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
MOLIERETime has nothing to do with the matter.
More Moliere Quotes
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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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To live without loving is not really to live.
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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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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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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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