The 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.
MOLIEREThe road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
More Moliere Quotes
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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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We are easily duped by those we love.
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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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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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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