As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
MOLIEREThe duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
More Moliere Quotes
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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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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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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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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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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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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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I will maintain it before the whole world.
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