Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
MOLIEREI 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.
More Moliere Quotes
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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I recover my property wherever I find it.
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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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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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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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