It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
MOLIEREGrammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
More Moliere Quotes
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The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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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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The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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Music and dance are all you need.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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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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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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