There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
MOLIEREAlthough I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
More Moliere Quotes
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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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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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The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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But it is not reason that governs love.
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It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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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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