The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
MOLIEREThe greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
More Moliere Quotes
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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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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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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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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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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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