Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
MOLIEREThe public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
More Moliere Quotes
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Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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The envious will die, but envy never.
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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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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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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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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.
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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