I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
MOLIEREHypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
More Moliere Quotes
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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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We die only once, and for such a long time.
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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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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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