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.
MOLIEREVirtue is the first title of nobility.
More Moliere Quotes
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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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It is a long road from conception to completion.
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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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