I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
MOLIEREThe public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
More Moliere Quotes
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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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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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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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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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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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