unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
MOLIEREI want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
More Moliere Quotes
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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Reason is not what decides love.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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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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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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