The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
MOLIEREHypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
More Moliere Quotes
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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But it is not reason that governs love.
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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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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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There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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