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.
MOLIEREBirth is nothing where virtue is not.
More Moliere Quotes
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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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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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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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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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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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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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Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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