It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
MOLIEREI assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
More Moliere Quotes
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Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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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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Reason is not what decides love.
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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A woman always has her revenge ready.
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There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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