It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
MOLIEREStay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
More Moliere Quotes
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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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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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Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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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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