Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
MOLIEREOf all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
More Moliere Quotes
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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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I have the knack of easing scruples.
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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