Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
MOLIEREThe 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.
More Moliere Quotes
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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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There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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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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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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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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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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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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