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.
MOLIEREInnocence is not accustomed to blush.
More Moliere Quotes
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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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To live without loving is not really to live.
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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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