They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
MOLIEREIt is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
More Moliere Quotes
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There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Too great haste leads us to error.
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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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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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Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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But it is not reason that governs love.
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You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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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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