The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
MOLIERETo marry a fool is to be no fool.
More Moliere Quotes
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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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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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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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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