There is no protection against slander.
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More Moliere Quotes
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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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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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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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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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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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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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To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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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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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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