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.
MOLIEREI would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
More Moliere Quotes
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Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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But it is not reason that governs love.
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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