The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
MOLIEREHow easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
More Moliere Quotes
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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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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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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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