All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
MOLIEREThe smallest errors are always the best.
More Moliere Quotes
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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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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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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We are easily duped by those we love.
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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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