People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
MOLIEREIt’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
More Moliere Quotes
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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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No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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There is no protection against slander.
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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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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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Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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