The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
MOLIEREThe secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
More Moliere Quotes
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You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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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.
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Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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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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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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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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How easy love makes fools of us.
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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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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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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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