The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
MOLIEREThe secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
MOLIEREOne ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
MOLIEREAs the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
MOLIEREBirth is nothing where virtue is not.
MOLIEREThe proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
MOLIEREWe must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
MOLIEREAll which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
MOLIEREEven Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIEREGold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
MOLIEREA woman always has her revenge ready.
MOLIEREThere is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
MOLIEREThere is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
MOLIEREIf you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
MOLIEREI prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
MOLIEREThere’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
MOLIEREThere’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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