The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
MOLIEREWithout dance, a man can do nothing.
More Moliere Quotes
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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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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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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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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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To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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To live without loving is not really to live.
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