We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
MOLIEREIt is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
More Moliere Quotes
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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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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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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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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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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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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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.
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To live without loving is not really to live.
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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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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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