The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
MOLIEREI prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
More Moliere Quotes
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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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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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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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