One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
MOLIEREThe public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
More Moliere Quotes
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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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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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A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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How easy love makes fools of us.
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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There’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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The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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