All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
MOLIEREOur minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
More Moliere Quotes
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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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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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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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