Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
MOLIEREHypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
More Moliere Quotes
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At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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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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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.
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I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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