There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
MOLIEREFolk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
More Moliere Quotes
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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 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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To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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I will maintain it before the whole world.
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A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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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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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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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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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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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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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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