Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
MOLIEREAlthough I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
More Moliere Quotes
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Long is the road from conception to completion.
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You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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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.
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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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