I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
MOLIEREThe more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
More Moliere Quotes
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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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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They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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