All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
MOLIEREThe trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
More Moliere Quotes
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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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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I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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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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They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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